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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...additional burden of making a mythological film about a beautiful half-snake, half-human without the aid of digital special effects. Ang's solution: to glue live snakes onto a cap worn by his exceedingly cooperative leading lady, 17-year old newcomer Pich Chanboramey. "Sometimes the snakes would leap off her head," the director recalls, "and we'd have to chase them around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medusa on the Mekong | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...fact, the President probably owes thanks to Card, who, apart from his apparent willingness to fall on his sword, has, perhaps inadvertently, shown the administration the path to take on these two controversial topics - and that similarly touchy issues should be subject to more of a look-before-you-leap examination in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the White House, One Man's Mistake or a Family Faux Pas? | 2/8/2001 | See Source »

...collection of high-rises overlooking the sea, Tripoli's architecture consists mostly of the dull and functional. But the corniche is wide, well paved and clean, with cafés and colored parasols and some children's toboggans, jungle gyms and a merry-go-round. With an epic leap of the imagination, one can almost be reminded of the French Riviera - except that the promenade looks out only onto Tripoli's sleepy harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weird, Wired World of Colonel Ghaddafi | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...side, sophomore Niall Murphy won the 60-meter high hurdles in 8.37 seconds, and senior Arthur Fergusson won the triple jump with a 14.92 meter leap--both season-bests. Co-captain John Kraay was Harvard's remaining event winner, cracking 53 feet (16.17 meters) for the second straight week in the shot...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Track Faces Top Competition in New York, New Balance | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...previous matches, but Capriati actually used her underdog status--she was seeded 12th--and newly discovered maturity to her advantage. "I thought, 'Why be nervous? She has everything to lose. Just go for it.'" In addition to winning a legion of fans, she'll take home $473,385 and leap to seventh place in this week's rankings, the first time she's been in the top 10 since she quit the tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 5, 2001 | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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