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...afraid to join in, they decided, albeit unsuccessfully, to ruin the experience for everyone. The next time these people appear in the news it will probably be because they have sabotaged an elderly man's dentures or embezzled money from a paraplegic. Fortunately, these types are not the norm...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Necessary Nakedness | 1/19/2000 | See Source »

...themes that interest me, but the idea of making them into one film was the underlying idea." The director's emphasis on content over, or at least preceding form, does not date to his beginnings as a filmmaker. Unlike the light and audience-driven fare that has become the norm in movie theatres, Morris' work is guided more by his own curiosity than by a stylistic or commercial vocabulary...

Author: By Dan L. Wagner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Executioner's Song: Portrait of the Artist | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

...than anyone else ever did, the debate over his lasting importance might end there. But Hitler's impact went beyond his willingness to kill without mercy. He did something civilization had not seen before. Genghis Khan operated in the context of the nomadic steppe, where pillaging villages was the norm. Hitler came out of the most civilized society on Earth, the land of Beethoven and Goethe and Schiller. He set out to kill people not for what they did but for who they were. Even Mao and Stalin were killing their "class enemies." Hitler killed a million Jewish babies just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Americans are fed up with 10-page phone bills listing service providers they don't remember contracting with, which have become the norm since 1984. Because of the 1996 act, major telecoms, including AT&T, Bell Atlantic and MCI/Sprint, will eventually be able to package Internet, cable TV, cellular, long distance and local services. That means one bill for all five services; consumers will also be allowed to choose the package that fits them. Further, telecom analysts say that the long distance market is in need of some new blood to fuel competition in the wake of the MCI-Sprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Consumers' Money Be Saved by the Bells? | 12/22/1999 | See Source »

...NORM STAMPER Seattle police chief quits after WTO fiasco. Picture Barney Fife with a latte

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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