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...college theme is part of the show's quest for a second year "freshness" for its viewers, Miller said...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hundreds Want to be College Millionaires | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson is now ready to continue its quest to win the Ivy League. What makes the league championship even more alluring this season is the added opportunity to be etched into volleyball history...

Author: By Cathy Tran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Three Seniors Will Anchor W. Volleyball | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

While U.S. businesses are busy trying to capture the country's 1.3 billion wallets, America's evangelists are out to snare Chinese souls. Their spiritual quest couldn't come at a more opportune time. The decay of communism, combined with rising unemployment and rampant consumerism, has kindled a religious revival in China. Some Chinese, many elderly and disenfranchised, have taken to Falun Gong, the outlawed meditation group that spooked the nation's leadership by quietly mobilizing more than 10,000 people for a mass protest in Beijing last year. Other seekers of spirituality, mostly younger and more attuned to Western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Smugglers Are Working for Jesus | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...work is relaxed without being slack, affectionate without going sentimental. Above all, he leaves his actors room to breathe, to live, as it were, between the script's lines. Zellweger blooms in this context. Her naivete is radical, of course, but that imparts a fierce serenity to her quest. Mostly, the people she encounters on the road and in Los Angeles quickly come to understand that she is off her rocker--except the soap-opera folk, who think she's an actress going to any lengths for a job--but there is such sweetness in her determination, such an endearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Comprehensive Care | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...chatting with reporters traveling on his plane, saying these conversations did little to show the voting public his ability to communicate with "real people." To be sure, the Bush campaign can be forgiven for recognizing that chatting to the hacks has done very little to help the governor's quest for that "better picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memo to Republicans: Shhh! You'll Scare the Donors | 9/8/2000 | See Source »

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