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...shady 26-year-olds hitting on those 14-year-old debutante prima donnas. You will find the high school kids who don’t get invited to parties, and so go to the place where you don’t need an invitation. You will find these outcast high-schoolers’ inverse: The college kids who were the ones throwing the invitation-only parties in high school and are now too cool for lowly open-house parties. You will find, in short, an amalgam of local youth whose variety is only surpassed by its vibrancy...

Author: By Z. SAMUEL Podolsky, | Title: No Beer, No Work | 1/4/2002 | See Source »

...have had a less spiritual and more practical purpose to his mission: supplying bin Laden with cash for the war in Afghanistan. Whether he is a cleric or a fighter, his presence is an embarrassment for the Saudi monarchy, which has long sought to portray bin Laden as an outcast without religious followers in the kingdom. Intelligence officials say that pinpointing the guest's identity and his relationship to bin Laden could yield valuable clues to al-Qaeda's worldwide network as well as its influence inside Saudi Arabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Shadowy Visitor | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...West, I felt like a loner and an outcast--a feeling that began when my mother died when I was 14 and when, shortly afterward, I was ripped from my home in New Orleans because my father was transferred to Richardson, Texas. That sense of alienation intensified over the years as I moved to California to work my way through college and then stayed on. At first I loved the freedom and radical spirit of the place. But as the years passed, I became bitter about not going home. I really didn't fit in with my liberal friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Heading Home | 10/22/2001 | See Source »

...This cycle boasts at least two star-making performances. The 24-year-old David Oyelowo is a magnificent Henry VI. His Queen meanwhile is the terrifying Fiona Bell, whose Margaret moves from manipulative beauty to a crazed outcast, dragging her slaughtered son's bones around in a sack. Earlier, Samuel West and particularly RSC regular David Troughton proved electric as Richard II and his nemesis Bolingbroke (later Henry IV). Desmond Barritt is a sad, lyrical Falstaff, and newcomer William Houston exciting but mannered as Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Scepter'd Aisle | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...career academy located within a high school in nearby Chantilly, Va. At the Chantilly Academy, students earn coveted technical certifications in courses designed by Cisco Systems, Microsoft and Nortel. Surrounded by like-minded classmates and encouraged to pursue something he loved, Matt quickly blossomed from a bit of an outcast who couldn't get his GPA above C level to a motivated and popular A student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Way Beyond Shop Class | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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