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Sebastian Junger's book could only speculate on the actions of Tyne and his men since, for reasons we can't explain, none of the crew would talk to him. The book was as much a history of commercial fishing as a story of one ship in a storm. So...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Familiar Crew Adrift in Turbulent Waters | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

Clark is the perfect Silicon Valley Man, though he was born "somewhere below the poverty line" in Plainview, Texas. His father abandoned the family when he was a child, and his mother should have been on welfare, but it "never occurred to her," Lewis writes. Clark, a classic malcontent, enlisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wealth Valley | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Rich kid from the Chicago suburbs. Six feet tall, 135 pounds, chip on his shoulder. Played Dungeons and Dragons as a kid and scrawled "Sic Semper Tyrannis" ?- the stale John Wilkes Booth motto ?- in his high school yearbook. Insisted on going by "August" because Benjamin sounded too Jewish, and told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Private War of Benjamin Smith | 7/6/1999 | See Source »

This latest development may seem minor, but it is indicative of the antagonistic role that the College has come to take in its students' lives, in subjects ranging from social life to advising to quality of teaching. No, it is not the College's responsibility to provide students with social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Should Not Hamper Student Opportunities | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

This latest development may seem minor, but it is indicative of the antagonistic role that the College has come to take in its students lives, in subjects ranging from social life to advising to quality of teaching. No, it is not the College's responsibility to provide students with social...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Editor | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

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