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The conceit underlying The Cooler is that casinos employ certain individuals who are so hangdog depressed that they cause any winning gamblers around them to begin losing. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is particularly good at the job, so good in fact, that he need only brush up against someone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 2/26/2004 | See Source »

Others said that Harvard would encounter at least some competition because of the new initiative.

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Northeastern To Hire 100 New Professors | 2/24/2004 | See Source »

Canal building requires tricky engineering over obstacles such as hills; the typical solution is a lock, which fills or empties to adjust water height. On Britain's southernmost canal?the 140-km Kennet and Avon, linking the town of Reading on the River Thames to the seaport of Bristol?travelers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canal Plus | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

Forget those traffic-clogged motorways: if you really want to see into Britain's soul, hire a narrow boat and putter gently along some of the country's 3,200 km of languorous waterways. Britain's 200-year-old canal system, once the country's most important method of freight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canal Plus | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

Let's start with the fake orgasm. The scene everyone remembers from Rob Reiner's iconic 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally is the one in which Meg Ryan's mischievous Sally shows Billy Crystal's bemused Harry just how women fake it - in a restaurant (actually Katz's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Faking It Onstage | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

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