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...time the final credits roll, it is apparent that the sloppy film never builds up to anything more than two hours of very timely silliness. The scenes have no reasons for being where they are; they could easily be reshuffled to produce a different film of similar merit. However, Allen does deserve credit for being more clever than most modern day filmmakers...

Author: By Lauren M. Mechling, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CELEBRITY | 12/11/1998 | See Source »

BAND-AID Johnson & Johnson sold $3 000 worth of handmade Band-Aids in 1921, the year it introduced them. A company cotton buyer, Earle Dickson, had created them at home for his accident-prone wife. He then convinced his boss that the strips had merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Under the new policy enacted in December 1996,Boston Latin assigned 50 percent of the placesbased on merit determined by entrance examinationresults and grade point average. School officialsallocated the remaining places on "flexibleracial/ethnic guidelines," determined by thepercentage of each of five ethnic and racialcategories in the applicant pool...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boston Latin Will Appeal Race Suit Ruling | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...Leave". And the recent '80s revival shows that it's apparently not just my blocking group friends who are obsessed with John Cusack holding up that boombox in Say Anything. Plus, every generation wants to take on the songs they grew up with. Reasons, reasons, reasons. Do they merit a full album of covers of teen movie themes from...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IN THEIR EYES | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...While the ruling was only a preliminary injunction (a trial date hasn't even been set yet), you can forgive Sun for acting like giant killers. Whyte is a tech-savvy judge with a reputation for weighty, watertight decisions. Sun's case, he wrote, is likely to succeed on merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sun Pours Java All Over Bill | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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