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...China (the breakout star of the show, with an apparent big role in the sequel), have not fared so well as those that were outward looking, even imperialist. The second is that the era's driving force, for good and for ill, is human arrogance. This millennium is a graveyard of eternal empires, authoritative explanations and overreaching ambitions that--like Isaacs'--every so often manage to show us something new under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Quick 1,000 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

With a make, Houston would join the pantheon of Big Apple post-season heroes, from Bucky Dent to Stephane Matteau. With a miss, he would join the ghost of Charles Smith in the graveyard of unfulfilled hoop dreams...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dan-nie Baseball! | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

With a make, Houston would join the pantheon of Big Apple post-season heroes, from Bucky Dent to Stephane Matteau. With a miss, he would join the ghost of Charles Smith in the graveyard of unfulfilled hoop dreams...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: The Shot Finally Falls: Houston Provides Unlikely Game-Winner | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

Root seekers haunt cemeteries. Dennis Rawlings had almost given up searching for a set of great-grandparents in a Port Hope, Ont., graveyard when, on a hunch, he took a pen from his pocket and poked it into the ground, hitting something hard. Tearing up the sod, he found an old stone reading MARY ANN RAWLINGS--DIED 1869. "We picked up 'Grandma' and cleaned her up for the next 100 years, until somebody else comes to visit," he recalls. "It felt like an episode from The Twilight Zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...prisons on a life sentence for murder. "The award would be nice, but it won't change my life one iota. I will still walk down to the chow hall afterwards for my beans and rice." The Farm examines the bleak struggle of six convicts lost in a living graveyard where few ever get out. Rideau, who taught himself to read and write while on death row for 11 years, kept his story out of the film because, he explains, "it's the only way to get credibility--people listen to you better." He has no illusions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Academy Awards | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

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