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"In my defense, there are people with this obsession all over the world," he said.

Author: By Justin D. Lerer, | Title: Kishlansky Talks on Writing | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

I can see that her piece was partly in jest, as is mine. But the bottom line remains: the equipment and facilities in the MAC can make an athlete out of the puniest of us. Demanding the latest machines and sterilizing technology is like refusing to wear last year's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schachter Needs To Exercise | 10/25/1995 | See Source »

There seems to exist every reason to foresee a crisis in a tacit, longtime, mutual appeasement. Forty five years ago, because of the military intervention of the United States, Mao Zedong, reluctantly gave up his ruthless ambition of sparing none. Across the strait, Chiang Kai-shek thought the same. After...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: Bridging the Two Chinas | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

Margaret Atwood has often observed that Canadians like herself are all imigrants, outsiders in their own country. "We move in fear," she writes in The Journals of Susanne Moodie, "exiles and invaders." This obsession with the precarious nature of lives lived in a world that is not our own pervades...

Author: By Daley C. Haggar, | Title: Atwood's Poetry Focuses on a Home | 10/19/1995 | See Source »

Joseph Keaton Jr. was born to a knockabout vaudeville family and quickly put on the stage. The lad toured with his family until 1917, when he entered films as second banana to Fatty Arbuckle. In 1920, Keaton left Arbuckle to make his own movies. The medium was still in its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: KEATON THE MAGNIFICENT | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

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