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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear several school-choice cases, legal experts suspect the more clear-cut Cleveland case might prod it into action. In the meantime, Judge Oliver is allowing Derrick Milancuk and nearly 4,000 other students in the Cleveland voucher program to remain in their schools while his ruling is on appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poor Grade For Vouchers | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...biopic about the screenwriting duo would probably fade in with obligatory teenage scenes of skinny Scott growing up in Los Angeles and larger Larry in South Bend, Ind., both obsessively making Super-8mm movies. Cut to the late '70s, when these film geeks become roommates at the University of Southern California after discovering a mutual love for trashy horror flicks like Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast and 2000 Maniacs. Now jump-cut to 1990, when they sell an original comedy about a bad seed called Problem Child but become dejected by the unfunny film that is made. To cheer themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...years ago, Buckley cut Firing Line to half an hour from its original hour. But he still scorned the spinning graphics, the thumping theme music, the rushed interruptions for commercial breaks. There were no commercial breaks--just two or three chairs, a couple of cameras and talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Quiet on the Firing Line: William F. Buckley Jr. | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...eager to please, polite and attentive to whomever they're with. Both work incredibly hard on the project at hand. For Ripley, Damon spent a month learning to play the piano and perfected Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring on the harmonium for a scene he knew would be cut from the movie. "I'm a writer. I knew what would be the first to go," says Damon, who won his Oscar for co-writing Good Will Hunting with Ben Affleck. "But it wasn't a waste of time, because playing the piano informed the way Ripley walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Matt Damon Acts Out | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...Greatest Inventions of the 20th Century chosen by Guinness Book of Records: Rubik's Cube, the Walkman and Tupperware made the cut; computers didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One of the Best Last Lists of the Century | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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