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...Then they would have a keen understanding of what so many interesting people go through...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Brokaw Details Media Changes | 2/27/2001 | See Source »

...course, things look different from behind the helm. Several crucial Administration leaders are less keen to intervene abroad. And a major military campaign against Iraq would be an expensive political move that would require a full-court press by U.S. diplomats to keep America's allies in line. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell could try that, but they seem plenty busy attempting to convince other powers of the merits of a national missile-defense system. Adding a stepped-up campaign against Saddam to the list of things to sell abroad seems unlikely. Still, there is frustration in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dubya's Hawks | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...you’re keen on going to the B.U.F.F., don’t expect it to be Sundance, but rest assured that it does offer some quality product on the whole. Heart of the World is showing multiple times throughout the week, and Mutant Aliens is showing at midnight tonight at Fenway; see both if you can. For a list of all festival films and showtimes, visit http://www.bostonundergroundfilmfestival.com...

Author: By Benjamin J. Soskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In the B.U.F.F. | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...like Ashcroft, they're not always so keen on civil liberties, or tolerant of the vices in which ordinary people engage with their free time or extra money. Next stop for the PSLM: Dancing? Rock lyrics? Caffeine...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, | Title: Puritanical Progressives | 2/21/2001 | See Source »

...creatures in his landscape, gets inside them, X-rays their souls. Then he takes pictures of them--images of a rapturous rural subtlety that recalls Terrence Malick's Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears, he has upended and ennobled that box-office staple, the troubled-teen film. From the whispers of his precocious worriers comes the shock of the new and a fresh hope for movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: X Rays of the Wayward Heart | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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