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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each of our heroes has a tiny, not very useful skill. Mr. Furious (Ben Stiller) works himself into a fine rage. The Blue Rajah (Hank Azaria) flings silverware. And the Shoveler (William H. Macy)--as he says, "I shovel well. I shovel very well." While glitzy Captain Amazing (Greg Kinnear) routinely saves Champion City with his bravado and big ego, the Mystery Men must scrounge to find the perils they believe they were born to overcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hero in the Mirror | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Athletic, attractive, competitive and refreshingly humble, the U.S. women's team elevated soccer to a new level. Role models winning as a team, these 23 women delivered a World Cup brimming with a renewed sense of pride in what we can accomplish in the U.S. ALLEN H. JONES Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Over a year after a pledge at MIT's Phi Gamma Delta fraternity died from alcohol poisoning, MIT has revoked the diploma of Charles H. Yoo, a 1998 MIT graduate who was the fraternity's pledgemaster at the time of the incident...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MIT Fraternity Member Has Diploma Revoked | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

...Molly Ivins for her celebration of the lovable stuff about Americans [ESSAY, July 12]. As I read it aloud to friends, I felt I was expressing my own ideas, illustrated with Molly's colorful word pictures. She held up a mirror, and we chuckled and nodded approval. JEAN H. MICULKA El Paso, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 2, 1999 | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...have also lived here, wire writers and correspondents working in nearly essential anonymity because they loved to write and tell the rest of the world how it is in this fabulous city, this creation of political philosophers and constitution writers. I think of the decidedly unromantic picture of H. L. Mencken sitting in the late night, overweight and sweating, pounding away at his keyboard in the Chesapeake heat, a fan blowing the steamy, soupy air around as he, clad only in a pair of BVDs, faces sheet after sheet of blank paper, ready to fill them with the excitement...

Author: By James Y. Stern, | Title: Where Old News Goes to Die | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

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