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(Note: My mother gave me permission to discuss her obsession--as long as I don't mention her name. So I'll just call her "mom.")

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In the Know | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

Or you could argue that we are selfish, and spoiled rotten. We think too much about ourselves, rarely about others, as we ought. Self-obsession has a way of making people angry.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tonya Harding Isn't the Only One Who's Angry | 2/25/2000 | See Source »

Cora Dulz is a psychiatrist who needs her head examined. She is sexually frustrated and has just lost two patients to suicide. What's more, she's infatuated with a new patient, Stanislaus Nagy, a disturbing young man who's fixated on Maria Callas. As this engagingly surreal short novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Books: The Great Bagarozy | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

This depiction of ruthless ambition and idolatry of wealth portrays the economic frenzy of the 1990s. Not only does this movie convey the obsession with the quantity of wealth (and the ignorance of how to use and enjoy it), but also the speed at which money is gained and lost...

Author: By Jill Kou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hot Under the [White] Collar | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

The evening was not without its humor. Stand-up comedian Paul F. Tomkins participated in what Mann called "acoustic vaudeville." In between songs, Tomkins improvised the artsists' innermost feelings, from an extended meditation on Penn's obsession with the word "popsicle," to Mann's dependence on the Internet for song...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mann: That's Just What You Are | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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