Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mikey: What I'm missing on this campus is a sense of intellectual community and that there are so many scores of students that are really invested in disavowing, like, their student-ness. Like, "Oh my god, I have so much reading and I haven' t done any of it and I went to the Grille last night and got really drunk and I never do my work and blah, blah, blah." English concentrators come up to me and say, "I have so many books to read!" And I say, "why are you in English?" I'm just looking...
...games, toys, comic books and cards to appeal to boys and girls from ages 4 to 15. Says Tilden: "We decided to make an all-out effort to repeat the phenomenon in the Western world." An additional part of the strategy, says Kubo, was to hide its "Japan-ness." Nintendo of America and its Japanese partners brought in Al Kahn, who developed the Cabbage Patch doll, to help with toy merchandising. "There's a little bit of magic in what Nintendo does," says Sussane Daniels, president of entertainment at the WB. "We wouldn't interfere with their methods. God bless...
DIED. IAN BANNEN, 71, Oscar nominee who played an affable con man in 1998's hit Waking Ned Devine; in a car crash near Loch Ness, Scotland. In a 50-year career, Bannen appeared in Braveheart, Gandhi and the 1980 TV mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; and on the London stage in The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night...
...already been stolen. Another shocker: public funds earmarked to pay for tombstones for some of the 7,000 victims of the Srebrenica massacre have vanished. Gilman plans hearings on the corruption this week and will call on the White House to create a "well-protected and highly trained ELLIOT NESS-style financial SWAT team" to pursue the inquiry in Bosnia...
...real world, climbing a mountain or learning to handle a kayak with someone you've barely met or, even worse, someone you see at the office every day can be just as lame. Toss in the fear of tackling physically challenging tasks and the potentially corny kum-bay-ya-ness of it all, and you've got the makings of a disaster...