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...hipster aura is already working, but Fai plays it cool. He smiles his big, gummy smile and lets the girl sway back into the jiggling crowd. He turns to the table of men and toasts, "kau lui!" He puts down his bottle and takes the dance floor. But the prey has moved on. Fai has misjudged, and now she's dancing with another, quicker Lothario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Night Of the Hunter | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...easily spot the men wanting sex." The taxi pulls over, and a young woman sashays out from behind the trees. She's wearing a cherry-colored blouse, tight white slacks and a cloud of cloying perfume. Her name is Little Jade, and she behaves less like a predator than prey, glancing nervously up and down the lane for cops - and, with equal apprehension, at the taxi's passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticking Time Bomb | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

...PEOPLE cover boy, always good for a sound bite and, says Herzfeld, based on a real New York City detective. Flemming thinks his celebrity helps him in his work. We may think differently as this bloody story evolves. But he is a novel, disturbing movie character. And his prey, with their fresh, almost innocent, foreigner's insight into how to maneuver the media for their own ends, are too. Best of all is Herzfeld's sense of TV as an environment in which all his characters swim. Almost everywhere they go, television screens, big and small, spew forth bilge. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Visions of False Realities | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...real worry is the size of the iceberg beneath Wonderland. Before the Internet, kid porn could be exchanged only in person or in unmarked envelopes. Now anyone with a computer can trade pictures around the globe; anyone with a camera and a child to prey upon can make his own video-and unicef estimates that some 2 million children around the world are now being sexually abused. The secrecy of the Net subculture is its own turn-on. David Hines, one of the men jailed last week, told the bbc: "I had friends all over the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Depravity Online | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

University administrators say the difference lies in Harvard's immunity to Big Dig construction complications and its approach to special exhibits. Since the Harvard museums do not focus on changing exhibitions, they do not fall prey to the drastic swings in attendance that plague many of Boston's museums...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's Museums Prosper While Boston's Slump | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

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