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...other movie, we would hate young Will Hunting. His perfection would be nothing short of irritating and boring. Yet Harvard golden boy Matt Damon sheds layer upon layer of complexity until finally we reach the core of his character near the movie's end. The film itself is nothing particularly exceptional. Director Gus Van Sant prefers a straight up telling of the tale--there's little to distract you from the fable playing out on screen. --Soman S. Chainani...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

Though students in several upper-class houses already enjoy the thicker paper, the decision to upgrade will bring James River Multi-layer two-ply toilet paper to bathrooms in the remaining houses and first-year dorms which currently provide Scott brand one-ply toilet paper...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softer Touch Comes To Student Bathrooms | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...exceptionally nervous as they near the end of any era. There were witch-hunts in the 1690s, episodes of hysteria in the 1890s. In our own time, one has only to reach back a couple of years to recall large-scale group fears induced by mention of the ozone layer, or by pandemics like toxic-shock syndrome, the Gulf War syndrome and the Ebola virus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...carefully calibrated. It is commonplace to say Gore wears a wooden mask in public and removes it in private to reveal a funny, knowing, ironic man of the world. But the quick wit Gore deploys in White House meetings or off-the-record encounters with reporters is just another layer of the onion, another protective device. He trusts almost no one, worries about leaks and guards himself to such an extent that some aides are not sure they have ever met the real Gore. "When he watches TV," a former adviser says, "you can almost see the voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN AL GORE BARE HIS SOUL? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Following the example of countless other Web sites, the student, who asked not to be named, distributed MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3) music files on his homepage...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Darst, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Web Site of Recordings Draws Copyright Concerns | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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