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...plans to return in time for the Crimson’s meet this weekend with Duke...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chu-Choo Chug to Victory | 1/30/2002 | See Source »

...operations are performed in the U.S. each year, but what is good for the heart may not be good for the head. About a third of surgery patients, particularly those who are older and less educated, are at higher risk of cognitive decline after bypass surgery, according to a Duke University study. Doctors stress, however, that heart patients should not take this as an excuse to avoid needed surgery; it's not clear exactly how much of the mental fogginess is a direct result of the bypass operation and how much is a function of aging, medication or pre-existing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our A To Z Guide To Advances In Medicine | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...with Kate & Leopold, in which the dashing but impecunious third Duke of Albany (Jackman) is zapped from 1876 New York (he is in town reluctantly seeking a rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...actors are expert, but it is as a quite literal comedy of manners (the duke has them; Kate needs them) that director (and co-writer) Mangold's film works best. There are excellent jokes about everything from television to pooper scooping, and given that this holiday film season has come up more than a little short on love and laughter, one can easily forgive Kate & Leopold the slightly excessive lengths and complications to which it goes in search of those rare commodities. --R.S. THE MAJESTIC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Philippine President Corazon Aquino in 1986). A twice-divorced American socialite, she was, to Britain's King Edward VIII, "the woman I love," for whom he abdicated the throne in a saga that shook the monarchy. Their love was deep, but their long, resplendent exile as Duke and Duchess of Windsor struck some as arid and irrelevant. Still, when the King announced his decision, she was, as TIME wrote, "the most talked-about, written-about, headlined and interest-compelling person in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME Person Of The Year | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

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