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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Children can be angels or devils, depending on the kind of nurturing they receive from others. They can grow into responsible and contributing members of society, or they can become its dependents, predators and outcasts. And because they are "Man's" children, they are everybody's children. The whole society has a stake in their destiny and a duty to help them grow up strong and confident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EVERYBODY'S CHILDREN: GIVING HELPS YOUNG PEOPLE GROW | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...seasons past we've been sluggish at this time of the year," junior forward Paul Fisher said. "I think this is one of the biggest games of the year to see if we continue to grow up or we stagnate...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin and Chris W. Mcevoy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: M. Cagers Seek Redemption | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...wrote Good Will Hunting as a short piece at Harvard. How did it grow into the screenplay for the movie...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Matt Damon On Life, Acting and Harvard | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...grew older, we learned the problem with these early experiences and understood how it conditioned to accept violence, particularly towards women, and to grow up to be callous vidiots sensitive only to lassoing ad execs. We echo, of course, the blood-thirsty media vultures whose tabloid exploits also increased during the '80s. Scream 2 addresses this in the character of Courteney Cox, whose Gale Weathers is now a slimy reporter; in addition, throughout the film, people theorize about what motivated people to such gore...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Scream 2' Goes One Step More Meta, But We're Reaching Saturation | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

Like jaded cynicism applied to every-thing in the world 24-7, though, such meta-ness isn't really sustainable for long without wearing thin: expectations grow higher and higher, we're the rats at the cocaine drop bottle with the tap key, etc. Scream 2 can't go much beyond its first virtuoso scene, in which a woman is stabbed by a movie's fan(atic) in a movie theater raucous over the violence on the screen. We ourselves in the theater feel real fear that the same could happen...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Scream 2' Goes One Step More Meta, But We're Reaching Saturation | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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