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...poisons her abusive husband, decapitates him, pops his head into a stay-fresh tupperware container, ditches her seven kids and takes off to Hollywood to become a TV star. It's a typical theme for a movie: carpe diem, no matter who you kill or how many lives you ruin. But set the plot during the turbulent time period of the '60s Civil Rights Movement, and the scope of the film becomes much wider and far more serious than its trailer suggests...

Author: By Jennifer Liao, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Banderas Directs a Period Piece? That's Crazy | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...takes a team-wide collapse to get outscored by 24 in a half, but now the problem has the potential to ruin the team's confidence as it enters the most important part of the season. Harvard has five Ivy games left, with the last three--Brown, Penn and Yale--being the toughest...

Author: By Bryan Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: BLee-ve It! | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...ruin your credit history," he says. "It could push you into depression...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debt Management | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...Chris: Really? I wouldn't want to ruin it by eating that many...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Ballpark Wisdom: Dining Out with Harvard's Fenway Boys | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

Adolph Ochs was very close to financial ruin when he set out to buy the New York Times, which was losing $1,000 a day. The newspaper Ochs already owned, in Chattanooga, Tenn., was almost underwater, and his personal debts were threatening to sink him and the large extended family he supported. His plan was to save the paper and himself by breaking into the big city market. With brilliant personal salesmanship and no little bit of financial finagling, he finally won the backing he needed. On Aug. 19, 1896, he announced on the front page of his newly acquired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Their Lives And Times | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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