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...acting out or watching forbidden movies. Dubbed the "Lost Boys," - exiled boys far outnumber girls - they live in low rent apartments or on the street, in the backs of cars in St. George, or Salt Lake City, even as far away as Las Vegas and Phoenix. They live rough-and-tumble lives, sometimes getting in minor trouble for drinking and fighting, others falling deep into tragedy and drug addiction, some even work as prostitutes on the Vegas strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Exiled Children of Utah | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...Derrick Barker had a rough first half, but then he stepped it up in the second half, and they realized they couldn’t pick on him anymore,” Williams said. “Our safeties were flying all over the place...I was, unfortunately, the weakest link, and I just had a few lucky tosses...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Topples Brown In Historic Night Game | 9/23/2007 | See Source »

...People are ready for this now," says jewelry designer Paloma Picasso, holding a necklace of giant rough aquamarines in her hands. "I would wear it because I like the fact that there is so much light in these stones and that somehow they are not pure, but maybe it's not for everyone." Indeed, after 27 years in business designing her namesake collection of fine jewelry for Tiffany & Co., Paloma Picasso, 58, the daughter of Pablo Picasso, has finally seen her passion for bold, large-scale jewelry and colorful, rough-edged stones come into fashion. When she launched her collection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Artistic License | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...unclear where that balance of toughness and perspective originates. Hermann hints that it comes from a childhood spent watching her parents, both doctors, deal with the carnage of emergency rooms. Hermann grew up in Concarneau, a fishing port in northern Brittany where car crashes were routine on the rough coastal roads and regularly disrupted the family's evenings. "I was often in the corridors of hospitals for emergencies, and it's funny, but I got used to that sort of activity," she recalls. "Maybe it's why I am so comfortable in fashion, which is so quick and aggressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Her Recipe For French Dressing? | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

...side of Erica is having with her angry side? "You look at the person you once were, walking down that street," she says on the radio, "and you wonder: Will you ever be her again?" The question is at the heart of a paradoxical movie that tries to question rough justice even as it celebrates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jodie Foster, Feminist Avenger | 9/14/2007 | See Source »

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