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...compared high schools. My mouth closed on itself as I realized that I needn't ask the college question. Fix-It-Boy popped the question instead. Did I go to college, why of course. Where? Well...I searched for an answer. Harvard meant the end of the conversation, and our girl on the scene knew that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...Which is why you folks don?t tend to do too well as characters. Certainly nobody went to see Guarding Tess. In Absolute Power, you were the bad guys, and the movie was dreadful. And need I bring up First Kid? (I thought I needn?t.) I admit freely that it bothered me when Xander Berkeley turned traitor in Air Force One (although he?s an underrated character actor who was the best non-silicon-based thing in the Pamela Anderson vehicle Barb Wire). So if we can believe what we hear -- that you?d rather see Janet Reno naked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In His Potato?s Secret Service | 7/17/1998 | See Source »

...biggest strain of being a manager, to someone who comes to it new in middle age, is that you must think constantly about others. You needn't necessarily think well of them or think kindly about them. It's not that stressful. But you must think something about others all the time. And you have to be in a good mood--or at least you have to pretend. No sulking in your tent like Achilles. There are superiors to impress and subordinates to maneuver (or the other way around). Being a middle manager is performance art. And the show must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Management 101 | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...French used to be prickly about their colonies. That's why President Clinton, en route to Senegal, made a courtesy call to France's President Jacques Chirac to ensure that his trip wasn?t viewed "as somehow pitting the United States against the French," according to an aide. He needn't have bothered, says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton: "If anything, the French government would like to get the U.S. more involved in Africa, because France is scaling down its own involvement. France no longer wants to be the gendarme of Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton Checks In With Paris | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...films When Worlds Collide and On the Beach) emphasizes the human drama on Earth. This is Hollywood, remember: the real-life asteroid is a mile wide; in Armageddon it's the size of Texas. Says producer Jerry Bruckheimer: "We always do things bigger." And faster; you needn't wait till 2028 for these big bangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worlds Collide...It'll Be At The Multiplex | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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