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...children's song; he could be a father crooning silky nonsense to a first-born. He lends a seductive petulance in "I don't wanna be your tiger/ 'Cause tigers play too rough." He plays with the title words as if they were Silly Putty, altering the stress and length of the vowels. It's a great, blithe performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Happy Birthday, Elvis | 1/8/2003 | See Source »

Because the meet was a joint one with each school’s men’s and women’s teams, the women’s format was slightly altered. The length of the meet-opening medley relay was doubled, while the 100-yard butterfly, backstroke and breaststroke were eliminated...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimmers, Divers Push Limits | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

...they should work fine. Since then, Baghdad may have bought or built more. Media attention has focused on the risks posed by Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear capacities, but those dangers are multiplied if Iraq can arm missiles with these weapons and strike its neighbors at arm's length. In the 1991 conflict, Iraq did not fire missiles tipped with chemical or biological agents. But if the U.S. battles Iraq again, this time with the stated aim of removing President Saddam Hussein from power, as President Bush has threatened, intelligence analysts fear that Saddam, with nothing left to lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: The Great Scud Hunt | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...about it. Have you ever seen a bad movie based on a Dickens novel? Rich in characters, abustle with action, aswarm with heart-stopping coincidences, the great writer's creations constitute the most cinematic body of work in all literature. The only problem they present to the filmmaker is length; the art of their adaptation always lies in paring down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holiday Movie Preview: Nicholas Nickleby | 12/23/2002 | See Source »

...home for Harvard’s dancers, space in Allston is not a viable solution to the problem. It is unreasonable to expect that students will walk 40 minutes (or ride a shuttle for 20) each way to attend classes that are on average 60 to 90 minutes in length. In addition, many dancers take multiple classes per day, an impossibility if they are forced to commute such a great distance. While we realize that many Harvard students take shuttles to classes in the Longwood medical area for instance, it is unrealistic that the same would be done for what...

Author: By Anna K. Weiss, | Title: Harvard Dance Needs Space, But Not in Allston | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

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