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...Frankenstein, but also to an active lifestyle that included acrobatics, martial arts and skydiving. With his body alternating between rigidity and uncontrollable spasms, almost the only physical recreation left for Lawrence was going out with friends to London clubs. Under the strobe lights his thrashing movements could be mistaken for enthusiastic dancing. So clubs became the one place he didn't feel self-conscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecstasy's Dividend | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...imagine that, as writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis pitched their script, they kept punctuating the plot twists with "Get this!" But sharper filmmakers than Falk, Ellis and director Adam Shankman got this fluffy genre down perfect about 60 to 70 years ago. Nearly everything in this movie (the mistaken identity, the Italian-buffoon beau, the romancing and dancing, the heavy piano underscoring as the lovers zero in for a moonlit kiss) was done better by Fred and Ginger, Cary and Kate. The only innovation here is a scene in which Mary uses a Q-Tip to remove a statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Butts About It | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...least that is what some mistaken observers of the game would have you believe...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Life of Brian: Baseball Needs a Salary Cap Like a Hole in the Head | 1/19/2001 | See Source »

...University alleges that the company's name could be mistaken for a school department and wants it changed. The suit was prompted by the company's recent name change from "Harvard Apparatus" in anticipation of going public. The action is the latest in Harvard's wide-ranging campaign to crack down on companies who seek to profit from seeming to be associated with the University. While the University's zeal in protecting its trademark is understandable in most cases, this latest lawsuit crosses the line from prosecuting malicious pirates to punishing legitimate companies...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Editorial Notebook: The Harvard Name | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

...sites are indeed threats to honest businesses everywhere. In another case, the University sued a Korean company called Itempool Media because the company published books under the name "Harvard Reader." The case, which the University won, was justified because the company was publishing educational materials that might honestly be mistaken as coming from the University itself...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Editorial Notebook: The Harvard Name | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

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