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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Josh Vonkorff: Your request for a report of my activities is marked 6:38 p.m., and therefore arrived at 5:38 p.m. central time. I first read it at 7 p.m., when my clock said 8 p.m. due to having been set ahead in anticipation of Daylight Savings Time. At that point, my family held a special emergency Passover seder seven days early, in honor of my being home. Synchronicity manifested itself when the pizza delivery guy arrived (Is pizza unleavened bread?) shortly after the front door was symbolically opened to let in the prophet Elijah...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Bricolage | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...definition of celebrity," says Tomb Raider producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity, but they are vacuous, so absolutely vacuous. A lot of females love Lara. She's contradictory, very human and obsessed with death. She'd rather be in tombs than in the daylight. She's not contrived, she speaks her mind, she's honest. That's why Angelina's so perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...ecclesiophobia: ... church eisoptrophobia: ... mirrors, or seeing oneself in a mirror electrophobia: ... electricity eleutherophobia: ... freedom emetophobia: ... vomiting enetophobia: ... pins enochlophobia: ... crowds enosiophobia: ... committing an unpardonable sin entomophobia: ... insects eosophobia: ... dawn or daylight epistaxiophobia: ... nosebleeds epistemophobia: ... knowledge equinophobia: ... horses eremophobia: ... being oneself ereuthrophobia: ... blushing ergophobia: ... work erotophobia: ... sexual love euphobia: ... hearing good news eurotophobia: ... female genitalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phobias From A to Z | 3/24/2001 | See Source »

...definition of celebrity," says "Tomb Raider" producer Lloyd Levin. "Christina and Britney have massive popularity, but they are vacuous, so absolutely vacuous. A lot of females love Lara. She's contradictory, very human and obsessed with death. She'd rather be in tombs than in the daylight. She's not contrived, she speaks her mind, she's honest. That's why Angelina's so perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out, Indiana, Here Comes Lara Croft | 3/18/2001 | See Source »

...harsh picture of medieval abuse and cruelty: during off hours women are kept in cellars, sleeping on the floor or on tables, surviving on fast food. Those who balk are raped, beaten or burned with cigarettes. A 19-year-old Moldovan woman rescued recently from Kosovo reported not seeing daylight for a month. "I never thought this was possible. These people are animals," she said. One Albanian gang branded its women with tattoos to prevent them from being stolen.Lately, the practice has surfaced in the Balkans in a particularly brutal form. Bosnia, Macedonia and Yugoslavia, once mainly source countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Slavery | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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