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...would rather be a male nurse than a doctor. Also the kind of guy whose luggage the airline is bound to lose. And the sort you know is going to end up on Jack's roof, chasing a cat, holding a live wire in one hand, putting out a leaf fire with one foot while trying to pretend the overflow in the septic tank down below is not his fault. De Niro is getting awfully good at comic menace (see Analyze This), and Stiller, a handsome guy who never alludes to his good looks, is a deliciously preoccupied innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Divine Foolishness | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...University officials say they are turning over a new leaf--symbolized by the decision to rename the project and divide it into separate programs. They say they learned from what had gone wrong during the initial phase, and add that before they give the go-ahead for the second "Human Resources" phase, they will solicit the input of system users...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Promise Kept: Project ADAPT Gets New Name, Shows New Face | 10/3/2000 | See Source »

...Line: Here's how bad the Chargers are: Ryan Leaf, until Thursday their starting QB and now just a guy waiting for Moses Moreno to get hurt, has a quarterback rating that is actually lower than if he had never, ever completed a pass. That's because he sometimes does complete passes, but usually to people from teams other than his own. This is a bad thing to do in the National Football League. Which shows that while it's true that you can't win if you don't play, sometimes it's still better not to suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...splitting negotiating tactics meant that I had a good shot at returning home with a new, utterly useless prize, like a special bendable pencil or a cherry-scented pen. On the eve of the new school year, I would organize my new loot carefully, caressing the shiny loose-leaf folders, sharpening the pencils, testing out the pink erasers. I'd set out my clothing for the next morning; as I got older, this ritual often involved lengthy consultations with friends, whose advice was weighed carefully and then generally dismissed. (We all had terrible taste back then, but I like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to School: The Thrill Is Gone | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

What if we took a leaf from the Pentagon's playbook and just pretended to build a missile-defense system? Better yet, why don't we pretend to pay for it? CHRISTOPHER ROWLEY Ellenville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 31, 2000 | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

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