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...holding a revolver that his classmate, Michael Lee Farley, 16, had handed him as they rode home on Farley's red motorbike, its small Confederate flag whipping in the wind. As they passed Virgil and his brother James, 16, Farley told Sims to fire the gun and "scare 'em." Sims closed his eyes and pulled the trigger. Two bullets hit Virgil in the chest and cheek, hurling him into a ditch as the motorbike sped on. "I've been shot," Virgil said. "No you ain't," James said in disbelief. "Just stop tremblin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy Of Virgil Ware | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...stuck in a ditch on the same dark Docena-Sandusky Road. Two young white men pulled up and approached him, "and I thought, Oh, no, it's all gonna happen again." But the men helped him pull his car out. "I asked them if I owed 'em anything," James says. "They said, 'Just help the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Legacy Of Virgil Ware | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Scarlett Johansson as two Americans who strike sweet sparks while stranded in Tokyo. These two characters are acutely and lovingly observed in contrast to the Japanese bit players, who fit all the dumb stereotypes: they're short of stature and long of wind, they constantly take photos, and damn 'em, not enough of these people speak English! The U.S. dominates so much of the world, politically and pop culturally, that it seems astonished to discover that a few spots have still not become the Mall of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Chick Flicks | 9/22/2003 | See Source »

...Gruber is a good receiver, but they have three good receivers,” Butler said. “We’re gonna play ‘em all the same way we’ve practiced all week...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON's GREETING: Football Opens Year At Cross-Town Rival | 9/19/2003 | See Source »

...hard to imagine a more garishly perfect show-business union than Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bollywood. Lloyd Webber, of course, is the British showman who created such over-the-top, pack-'em-in productions as Cats, The Phantom of the Opera and Starlight Express. Bollywood is the name for India's film industry, which each year churns out close to 1,000 films, virtually all weepy melodramas staged as singing, dancing, multiple-costume-changing revues. Three years ago, fate brought Lloyd Webber and celebrated Indian composer A.R. Rahman together, and so was born Bombay Dreams, a campy bildungsroman that follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Wild Musical About India Heads to the U.S. | 9/8/2003 | See Source »

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