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...have done impressively ridiculous and weird things such as demonstrating that, biochemically, romantic love is indistinguishable from obsessive-compulsive disorder or creating the self-perfuming business suit. Although many of the ideas and discoveries of the recipients are fairly useless, that’s just the way these mad scientists like it. The awards are presented to the year’s winners by somewhat bemused Nobel laureates. Presenters this year include Sheldon Glashow, Dudley Herschbach, William Lipscomb, Richard Roberts, Robert Wilson, and many others...

Author: By A. J. Boguchwal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ignobility Tonight | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

Most of the school thinks that some of the stuff Zeke talked about probably happened but are mad about the way it was handled, says Durham. He was not fixing anything. He was out to get back at the school. The whole thing turned into a crusade against sexual molestation, which has its place, but it was weird in the context...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Groton Not Forgotten | 9/21/2001 | See Source »

...distinguish Micky's implausible fantasies from implausible actual events, as when his assistant and her--of course--hot roommate do an erotic dance for him at her apartment.) Take away the masturbation scenes and nudity, and you've got one part In the Company of Men, three parts Mad About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manly Pursuits | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...America, we're as concerned about who's pregnant on a TV show as we are about whether or not the temperature of the globe is going up. Our perspective is warped by this TV fantasy culture. One thing that worries me in the U.S. is this sort of mad attempt to somehow resegregate ourselves. There's some sort of strange fractionalization going on again. The thing that has made the music of America in many ways dominate the world is that we come from the world, and the whole world ended up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: My African Heart | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...screw-you rights like he does." As Powell told TIME, "I can eat bullets. I can be nasty if I have to be." He is still an independent power; Bush can't afford to fire him, and he can't afford to let him walk away mad. But "in seven months," said Powell, "I've never seen the situation where I haven't been able to work within this Administration. 'Do it my way or else I walk'--it's not my style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Odd Man Out | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

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