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...imagine for a moment that, through some sort of Career Services-style "externship" program, you could pick out that annoying guy and "shadow" him for a day, without him knowing that you were there. In your quest to explore his life, you follow him back from class to his room, where he sits around and cracks jokes with his roommates for a while before calling his mom. Over dinner, you listen as he talks with a friend who just failed a test, managing to convince her that it's not such a big deal. Later, you read over his shoulder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shadowing the Enemy | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...less expensive alternative is the new REX from Rolodex and Franklin Quest, available for less than $150. About the size of a credit card, the REX holds hundreds of appointments, contacts, and notes, but lacks any input mechanism; all data entry is done on your...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Gift Ideas For the Holidays | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

These include Girlspot, a forum for women; Quest, a confidential peer group; Cocktail, a forum for men; Spectrum a group for queers of color; QUAG, a group dedicated to political action; and the Transgender Task Force...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Summer Selected as New Co-Chair of BGLTSA | 12/9/1997 | See Source »

...motorbike off a cliff, we would have said, 'Yeah, that's Michael.' But the suicide is the hardest part to understand. I've never seen him depressed." That irrepressibility may have fueled one early theory about the cause of death: autoerotic asphyxiation. It seemed in keeping with his quest for thrills and new sensations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COULD HE HAVE DONE IT? | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

Moreover, the subplots are entirely incompatible. While the courtroom drama is an exercise in laughable platitudes, Rudy's quest to save the abused Danes is imbued with vicious reality. Scenes where Danes' husband confronts her with a baseball bat completely betray the light-hearted mood--and, in fact, underscore the inadequacy of the main storyline. Indeed, when the movie drops this subplot abruptly in order to focus on the legal battle, the film grinds to a screeching halt...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Lightning for this 'Rainmaker' | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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