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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...only cover half of the school's $50,000 annual tab. So to cover the gap, he's hoping 10,000 friends of friends of friends will each put $2.50 in the mail or send the money via PayPal. "If you're worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call NYU's admissions office at 212.998.4500," his e-mail continues, "and ask for someone in international admissions - they handled my admissions as I was recruited to play ice hockey for Russia and spent last year there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An E-Mail Plea: Help Pay My Tuition! | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...richer than the remake. Both have an attitude; the first one has a vision. George Miller testified that the Bartel film inspired his Mad Max movies: the post-apocalyptic landscape, the valuing of speed over life, the fender-level shots of cars careering toward Armageddon. It also spawned a rip-off video game, called Death Race, supposedly the first of its kind to be banned. Death Race 2000 didn,t slam into any legal walls, but it has a lunatic daring that was a hallmark of 70s movies, and that is all but absent from the films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Race: Worth a Test Drive | 8/24/2008 | See Source »

...strengths of the Obama candidacy has been the sense that this is a guy whose blood doesn't boil, who carefully considers the options before he reacts-and that his reaction is always measured and rational. But that's also a weakness: sometimes the most rational response is to rip your opponent's lungs out. On the same day as the North Carolina meeting, Obama spoke to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and reacted with carefully prepared passion to John McCain's scurrilous campaign theme that Obama doesn't put America first. "Let me be clear: I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's Obama's Passion? | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

...remaining houses in the villages of Kekhvi, Nizhnie Achaveti, Verkhnie Achaveti and Tamarasheni, have been burned while new fires were started in the smaller surrounding Georgian villages off the main road. On Tuesday a backhoe was used by South Ossetian villagers to tear down courtyard walls and rip into the sides of houses. Men wearing camouflage outfits and white Nikes, along with some in civilian clothes, stood around on the main road as the backhoe took a swipe at an above ground gas or water pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fanning Ethnic Flames in Georgia | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

Sure, there's a goalie there, but think about it: you get to throw a little ball into a fairly big net. Soccer is hard precisely because you can't use your hands; it's difficult to control a ball with your feet. Here, just grip it and rip it. Basketball is tricky because the hoop is 10 ft. off the ground and relatively tiny. Here, throw it high, throw it low, you will score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, America, What About Handball? | 8/14/2008 | See Source »

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