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...would someone in full clown regalia wander--like a child into a war zone--through the streets of a toxic inner city? Is he on a quest for instant martyrdom? No. He's Tommy Johnson, an ex-drug dealer now known as Tommy the Hip-Hop Clown, and he's recruiting some of the best local talent of South Central Los Angeles to help create a frenetic, feel-good style of dance called clowning. Missionaries of optimism, they go about, one clowner says, "making smiles where there were no smiles, laughter where there was no laughter," and turning the meanest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Clowning Their Way Off The Mean Streets | 6/12/2005 | See Source »

Upon arriving at Harvard, Lithgow’s college roommate David B. Ansen ’76 was a bit surprised to see the “tall, gangly dude from Ohio” standing in the middle of their Wigglesworth dorm. A shared interest in theater fueled their instant friendship...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lithgow To Take Center Stage | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...very friendly but wasn’t romantically interested,” she says. The two kept interactions casual over e-mail and instant messenger until Mr. Murray, now 21 and a physics concentrator in Adams House, arrived at Harvard two years later...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Weddings & Engagements | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...make sense to use in a theater, but it's a surprisingly accurate system for rudimentary messages. But I wish that the VoiceMode capability extended to the extra text on picture or video mail, and I also that I could have used it when logged into AOL Instant Messenger. The alternative - straight-up thumb typing - isn't nearly as efficient, especially when using the phone's clumsy predictive text software...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sprint PCS MM-a800 by Samsung | 6/8/2005 | See Source »

STEPPING DOWN. MOMOFUKU ANDO, 95, culinary entrepreneur who in 1958 invented instant ramen noodles, a convenience-store staple and a $10 billion industry worldwide; as chairman of Nissin Food Products Co.; in Osaka. Ando was inspired to start his food business by the privations of the country's post-World War II depression. "I was sure the world could be peaceful only after having enough food," he said last week. He will continue to advise the company as founding chairman once his resignation is effective June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

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