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...director Marc Levin's bifocal vision, Ray is a thug and a saint: he sells weed to the locals and buys ice cream for the neighborhood kids. Of course Ray will be nabbed, for a minor crime, and sent to the rathole of a D.C. jail. Another new guy, a rich Asian American (Beau Sia, scary and very funny), is so sure he'll be sprung that he spits wild invective at the screws. But Ray knows not to mouth off. Jail for him is a familiar horror: school with the toughest students and faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Poet in the Pokey | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...other hand, every big-league hitter knows that sometimes you have to lay off a pitch. That's the case with "Major League (1989), a minor-league effort that features Tom Berenger as a broken-down Cleveland Indians catcher, Rene Russo as the Woman He Loves, and Bob Uecker as, well, Bob Uecker. How bad is this film? "How's your wife and my kids?" is the best line of the movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Potato Game | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...true Canadian style, the actual physical differences between the American and Canadian ways of celebrating are minor. Both are opportunities for family and friends to get together over the same traditional Thanksgiving cannon of turkey, stuffing, cranberries and mashed potatoes. The similarities stem from the fact that the holiday was originally American and only became a Canadian event after it was established in the U.S. Ryan D. Steingard '00, originally from Victoria, does not let this fact disturb him. "The U.S. had the original Thanksgiving, but we're just thankful were not Americans," he says...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Thanksgiving, Eh | 10/15/1998 | See Source »

...sell cigarettes to a minor or anything like that," says Kerry Quikstrom, a manager of the Square's Store 24. "But I think it's ridiculous...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Checking Your Card | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

...prelude to transplant is brutal, however. The children receive near lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy that kill the rapidly dividing sick cells. This leaves the patients without any immune system, so the most minor infection could kill them. It also kills the cells lining the gut, making digestion difficult, and those lining the mouth, producing painful sores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ward of Last Resort | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

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