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Brie Finegold, 22, a graduate of the University of North Texas, says she did fine without the traditional classroom. "I got to do volunteer work at the food bank at my synagogue and apprentice to a dance company when I was a teenager, when others my age were sitting in classrooms," she says. But volunteering and dancing aren't necessarily better than chemistry and poetry. The basic function of a liberal education is to expose people to fields they normally wouldn't investigate. Whether you believe the purpose of education is to shape one's character in a democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home Sweet School | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...about whom she was currently seeing. She wouldn't even talk much about the plot of the two upcoming sequels to the sci-fi movie "The Matrix" that she was signed to do, except to say that the name of her character was Zee. Aaliyah would have made a fine prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Siren of Subtlety | 8/26/2001 | See Source »

...Certainly for Bush and the Republicans, it all adds up just fine. The numbers, Bush said Tuesday, will illustrate "that we've got enough money to preserve and protect Social Security, that we'll pay down over $100 billion of public debt, that? every dime that comes into Medicare, will be spent on Medicare," Bush said Tuesday. "And we can meet our priorities when it comes to our military and ... education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Economic Slowdown Helps Sell the GOP Budget | 8/22/2001 | See Source »

...charged with one federal count of adulterating and misbranding drugs. Courtney, who is reportedly worth at least $10 million, has admitted to investigators that he?d diluted the expensive drugs "out of greed and in order to make more money." If convicted, he could face a $250,000 fine and a three-year jail term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trusting the Man in the White Coat | 8/21/2001 | See Source »

...that Rat Race avoids piety entirely. It ends with a near orgy of unpersuasive show-biz sentimentality. But up till then it's a fine madness, full of jaunty desperation, survivable disasters and the kind of ferocious concentration on a really stupid idea that once propelled Wile E. Coyote through--come to think of it--a similarly bleak and comically perilous American landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Old-Fashioned Lunacy | 8/20/2001 | See Source »

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