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...economic picture, which in turn is but one slice of the country's overall well-being--and almost entirely outside a President's control. Bizarrely, that number, and the rhetoric it generates, will have an unprecedented effect on who gets to be President--in other words, who gets to pretend to control the economy for the next four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Presidents Have No Power | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...just work. "I felt the same going into Troy as I did about Snatch or True Romance, which was a two-day job," he says. "Prepare, show up on time, and be professional." Of course, True Romance required only that he sit on a couch and pretend to be high. For Troy, Pitt spent months training with a dialect coach to lose his "Missouri mush mouth," worked out three hours and ate five low-fat meals a day (he cheated with the occasional McFlurry) and slept as much as possible to soothe his endlessly aching muscles. "It sounds like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helmeted, Huge, Humble | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

...accounts of student experience. He explores three major themes: academic success, how extra-curricular involvement affects happiness and the often-confusing way diversity works in both academic and extra-curricular contexts. College is not paint-by-numbers, of course, and Light’s book doesn’t pretend to prescribe a singular path to success. It does, however, include enough specific examples from student interviews that I could cobble together a roster of activities from the book for my two-week blitz. I would try and do everything specifically mentioned in the book and then improvise when only...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, | Title: Going out with a bang | 5/6/2004 | See Source »

...economic picture, which in turn is but one slice of the country's overall well-being - and almost entirely outside a President's control. Bizarrely, that number, and the rhetoric it generates, will have an unprecedented effect on who gets to be President - in other words, who gets to pretend to control the economy for the next four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Presidents Have No Power | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...ain’t this wacky” jokes as is possible in this wildly mediocre rehash of Some Like It Hot. Like in that classic comedy, two performers witness mob violence and go on the run. This time the heroes find refuge on the gay circuit, where they pretend to be men dressing up as women. Eventually David Duchovny shows up to provide a heterosexual love interest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happenings | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

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