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Weren't they in my Lit and Arts C section? Didn't they have faces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Those are just the movie references. The Wachowskis, both dropouts from good colleges (Larry from Bard, Andy from Emerson), want to weld classic lit, hallucinogenic imagery and a wild world of philosophical surmises to pop culture. The Bible meets Batman; Lewis Carroll collides with William Gibson; Greek and geek mythology bump and run. Hell, you may find string theory in The Matrix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popular Metaphysics | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Doctors used to blame the higher incidence of lung cancer among those who started smoking in their youth on their prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving 143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA damage would long since have been repaired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smoking Gun For the Young | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...past, the coat problem has been particularly embarrassing for at the end of the evening because I sport the gray. J. Crew pea coat model that everyone seems to have. Finding my own coat can be a critical yet often tricky task in badly lit and crowded common rooms...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: Party When The Heat Is On | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...past, the coat problem has been particularly embarrassing for at the end of the evening because I sport the gray J. Crew pea coat model that everyone seems to have. Finding my own coat can be a critical yet often tricky task in badly lit and crowded common rooms...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: When the Heat is On | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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