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Cambridge, I would venture, is a mite hard to know. But perhaps spending a summer here at least offers the opportunity to return to where we started and know ourselves for the first time. Or to begin the journey again...

Author: By Kathryn R. Markham, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...certainly express regret for the intemperate sack of Carthage. (Reparations optional.) Congress could withhold aid to Egypt until the Mubarak government sheds a few public tears for holding the ancient Israelites in bondage. And isn't it high time the new socialist government of France admitted it was a mite sorry for the heedlessness that left Louis XVI headless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MAMA MIA, THAT'S A MEA CULPA | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

...funniest and soberest works. "The world is not a place on which I have influence or wish to have any," says Merry through a veil, a safety net for microbes. Swede's reply cries out to distraught parents everywhere: "You are influencing me! You who will not kill a mite are killing me...your powerlessness is power over me, goddamn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN SHE WAS BAD | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...course, hitting the heavily protected weak link in the planet-fortress of the Empire that reduces the forces of evil to a pyrotechnic starburst signaling the end of the dark days in the universe, While the dogfight that leads into the last-ditch attack is a mite drawn out, the denouement amply compensates for any peccadillos of self-indulgence that Lucas commits as he films the dueling spacecraft...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: "Graffiti" Director Delivers Cliched but Dazzling Epic | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...really very capable," notes Blethyn, "although not the brightest." So when Hortense shows up, it is a shock and an opportunity. Secrets will be revealed, and lies made truth, at Roxanne's 21st-birthday party, held by Maurice and his stressful wife Monica (Phyllis Logan). Catharsis is achieved a mite speedily, but the family has earned so much pity and goodwill, we want them all just to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FAMILY VALUES | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

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