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...familiar material or they'll love it because it puts an original spin on the same tried-and-true Sundays product. On the one hand, the old mellow ambiance is there, along with the familiar existentialist love themes: "a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do/it's dumb--I know what I want to say/but I can't even take one breath." On the other hand, a plethora of extra instrumentation helps the quartet explore these comfortable themes more fully than they could in their guitar based pieces. The numerous string parts on "Cry," for instance, cooperate...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Just Another 'Static' Sunday | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...which students meet on a semiregular basis and discuss race. Some 450 students are signed up. The meetings, held in groups of about 20, can get emotional. At a recent session, Alison Garcia, 12, stood up, tears in her eyes, and exclaimed, "All Hispanics are not dumb! You don't know me. My father and my uncle were part of the Cherokee tribe, and my uncle had the highest scores in school." Says Gullatte: "What the Group X project did was help me to be able to tell other people about [my experiences] and say what I really feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KIDS AND RACE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...troopers from the invasion of Normandy to the Allied victory in Berlin. Not many starters finished. The period from June 7, 1944, to May 7, 1945, is saturated in blood, sometimes frozen solid. What was called the Crusade in Europe is in large part a story of questionable judgments, dumb luck, trial and error (the easiest way to dig a foxhole in icebound terrain is to start with a hand grenade; the main lesson learned in street fighting, says one survivor, is to stay off the street). "I feel very close to these guys," says Ambrose, who looks and sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: PROFILES IN COURAGE | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Sahr is kind of the poster boy of the whole term-papers-for-sale flap on the Net. The issue resurfaced with fresh hysteria a few weeks ago, when Boston University filed a lawsuit against eight outfits that actually sell papers, via the Web, to students too lazy or dumb to write their own. Sahr, you should know, is not a defendant in that suit since the thousands of papers at his site--on every subject from "The Tragedy of the Black Death" to "Why Nuclear Fusion Is So Cool"--are yours to download for free. (Help yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHWATCH: THE GREAT TERM-PAPER FLAP | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Fans of Mr. Bean's TV persona are bound to be dismayed by his disappointing foray into cinema. With his trademark goofy physical antics and rubber-like face, Rowan Atkinson almost--but doesn't quite--save this movie from its dumb comedy paraphernalia...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, | Title: Bean | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

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