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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...possible trouble. Other counselors asked if I had intentionally applied for my particular position in disbelief that anyone would willingly supervise the activity formerly known as “Library.” During orientation, when an example was needed for dealing with bored, negative, or restless kids, MMM (as those of us in the know refer to Multimedia Madness) was repeatedly referenced...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: In the Midst of Madness | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...going to stop the complaints, I was going to distract them long enough to make a difference. In the process, I got to bask in a few triumphs. An excited huddle of campers playing word games like Scattergories or Wheel of Fortune almost forgot they were stuck in MMM. Anti-writing warriors scribing columns about sports and rappers would make my day. Little campers learning how to speak Swahili or write their name in hieroglyphics was awesome. And when a few of those Mini-Mes appeared with their unsolicited contributions to the paper, I suddenly turned into an absurdly affectionate...

Author: By Margaret M. Rossman, | Title: In the Midst of Madness | 8/12/2005 | See Source »

...instead of trying to hold back time I was pushing it ahead." Montand also savored the interplay with Co-Star Grard Depardieu, "one of the best actors in the world," and the delights of the literate script. "The dialogue is so rich ...with the kinds of sentences that, mmm, you can taste because it's so close to the truth, so far from artifice," he says. "This film shows the grandeur of France, but the real France, not the pretentious, self-satisfied one." Which is not a bad way to describe Montand himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 27, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Determined, I try again, getting it going for a good three hours while I cook, eat and clean after my dinner (plain pasta boiled with garlic and peanut butter spread over my four remaining meusli bars—mmm!). I manage in the process to go through not only every log in the hut but every stick, twig or leaf in a 10-meter area outside...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, | Title: Roughing It (Sort Of) | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

...China president, acknowledges the existence of the newcomers and copycats but insists that he sees their imitations as a compliment. Indeed, if Yum's latest culinary ventures pan out, he may soon find himself up against a raft of local chefs hawking Chinese knockoffs of chili cheese burritos. Mmm, finger-lickin' good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colonel Sanders' March on China | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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