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...disheartened young stand-up by telling him his favorite show-business story. The plane carrying Glenn Miller's band is forced to land in a snowstorm. Two of the musicians are trudging through a snowy field and see a snug little cabin in front of them. They peer through the window and see a husband and wife laughing with their two apple-cheeked children in front of a roaring fireplace. One band member turns to the other and says, "How do people live like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Very Jerry Seinfeld | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

Inside a darkened viewing chamber on the top floor of Paris' Centre Pompidou, visitors peer at what looks like a psychedelic astral storm, raging to a soundtrack of electronic bleeps and retro '70s rock. In a 45-minute video loop, a twisting cloud vortex is projected onto a long rectangular screen, morphing through the colors of the rainbow while meteorite showers and 3-D computer incrustations drift across the foreground. "I'd like people to look at it like they'd look at a sunset," says Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the artist responsible for Exotourisme. "I wanted to blur the boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let the Arguments Begin | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...Administrative Board’s new policy for investigating peer disputes—the adoption of which created controversy last spring—were not discussed...

Author: By Lauren A.E. Schuker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Assault Policy Reviewers Seek Student Input | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...that because a big tin bucket doesn’t think it’s entitled to do whatever the hell it wants, just because its asinine peer group is running the country...

Author: By Sarah L. Burke, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Your F*cking War On! | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

Hill, an Undergraduate Council representative, came up with the idea of peer advising for concentration choices last year. CUE considered a form of the proposal last spring, Chopra said, but the initial plan met with concerns from the committee—concerns that have since been ironed...

Author: By Divya A. Mani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students To Advise First-Years On Majors | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

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