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...with her teenage grandson Timothy Haines, a student at the University of Nebraska. "On the phone, he'll say everything is fine, his life is fine, his mother's fine, his friends are fine. With e-mail he opens up. He tells me how he's really doing, how rotten his last football game was and how school sucks. He gets down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Simply Grand | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...arms had suddenly become nonfunctional and I would otherwise be unable to enter 7-Eleven to buy a box of Pop Tarts--the truth is that some people are just plain down on their luck, whether it's due to an incapacity, the effects of discrimination or just a rotten turn of recent events. And it is to these individuals that I have gladly and understandably forked over some dough, some "getting-by" money, some transitional cash...

Author: By George W. Hicks, | Title: Change We Could Use | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

There is something rotten in the state of Harvard Square. Perhaps you've noticed the gigantic pictures of "men's wrestling" that suddenly appeared this fall. Or those eerily good-looking people who stand holding doors open for no apparent reason. Or maybe you've noticed that this fall the Square took a step towards homogeneity. The evidence is conclusive--Abercrombie & Fitch, no longer content with suburban malls, has jutted itself into Harvard Square...

Author: By Christina S. Lewis, | Title: Abercrombie and the "American" Image | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...probe into the Waco conflagration. Danforth, a party-line-bucking iconoclast who retired from the Senate in 1995, is a former Missouri attorney general, an ordained Episcopal priest and the kind of guy who won?t stop to consider the FBI?s feelings if he finds anything rotten in the state of the agency?s disastrous siege of the Branch Davidian compound all those Aprils ago. And if Danforth, 63, is looking for some gumshoes, he might consider the Texas Rangers ? these guys have never been too fond of the FBI, and they?ve already got a few leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Second Siege of Waco: This Time It's Congressional | 9/8/1999 | See Source »

...slick, overhyped, multimillion-dollar products of Hollywood, and that is just what it is. It stands for the proposition that with only a shoestring budget, inferior equipment, no script and three of the most unattractive, foulmouthed performers imaginable, you too can make a movie that is every bit as rotten as anything ever dreamed up by the major studios on a bad day. THOMAS A. DIMAGGIO York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 1999 | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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