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...Well, everything points to it. I mean, the 118 death- row exonerees. ARE YOU OVERSTATING IT, THOUGH? I might be. But conversely, can someone say with assurance that we have not executed an innocent person? Especially when you see how they're saved by flukes. It's hit or miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Helen Prejean | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

...remake of Around the World in 80 Days, starring Jackie Chan. It was, says De France, a "big door of opportunity thrown open to my career." Yet she had to be coaxed into accepting the part. "I was already involved in a wonderful stage production of [August] Strindberg's Miss Julie with very close friends when the call from Los Angeles came saying I had the part - so I turned it down," admits De France. "It wasn't until several sleepless nights later, after a lot of urging from people, that I heard this voice say, 'Hey, Cécile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Euro Express | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

...what if kids grow so accustomed to these interventions that they miss out on lessons in self-reliance? Mara Sapon-Shevin, an education professor at Syracuse University, has had college students tell her they were late for class because their mothers didn't call to wake them up that morning. She has had students call their parents from the classroom on a cell phone to complain about a low grade and then pass the phone over to her, in the middle of class, because the parent wanted to intervene. And she has had parents say they are paying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents Behaving Badly | 2/13/2005 | See Source »

Students added they would miss the store if it closed, partly because they enjoy talking to Chen...

Author: By Anna M. Friedman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Louie Considers Closing Superette | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

...fencing champion moving in, she offered to help him lug his boxes of trophies upstairs. Tom Keller β€˜71 was a junior, β€œthe weirdest of the weirdos,” says Kleeman. She was his first-year antithesis, a self-labeled β€œMiss Priss...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love the Boy Next Door | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

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