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...week into the debate over whether Terri Schiavo should be allowed to die, by authorizing Governor Jeb Bush to order the reinsertion of her feeding tube, the acrimonious battle entered a new and possibly protracted round in the courts. But in the court of public opinion, at least, the finger-pointing over what led to Terri's 1990 collapse at age 26 could get nastier. Her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler (who want her kept alive), have suggested that her husband Michael Schiavo (who insists she would not have wanted to live in her vegetative state) physically abused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Family At War | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive, so he can point and click on the board with his hand, navigating from urn to urn, zooming in on images when he wants to highlight a detail. He even uses his index finger to draw lines, and he sketches freehand directly on the screen when he needs to illustrate a point. When he's done, Rush can save what's on the Smart Board and instantly distribute it to every laptop in the room, so the kids can take it home to study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old School, New Tricks | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

...being a witch!” These accusations turn out to be represented by a single Pilgrim with an animatronic hand that swings jerkily on her plastic wrist. The Salem witch trials were paranoia at its most fierce. Now they’re represented by an ill-made plastic finger bobbing up and down...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Witching Sell | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...spirit of the evening, McGeary suddenly decided to take over as interviewer and ask a few probing questions of his own. When “Rock Your Body” started playing on the bar’s speakers, he leapt up from his wooden chair, hand raised with finger pointing to the bar’s low ceiling, reminiscent of Patrick Henry at the Constitutional Convention, and exclaimed, “Time for a straw poll! Justin Timberlake, up or down?” The table was soon abuzz, with comments ranging from the quality of the Justified Tour...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Margaretta E. Homsey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Views and Booze | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

Shaking his finger, he takes another stab: “Okay, one more,” Summers says to the group “Which is more, six and four, or four...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School’s in for Summers | 10/29/2003 | See Source »

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