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...years STEPHEN KING has made us afraid of things we didn't even know we should fear: vintage cars (Christine), Saint Bernards (Cujo), children who worship corn (Children of the Corn). Only now do we learn that what curdles his blood is the idea of ending up a hack. Not exactly the same as being caught after dark in a pet cemetery, but chilling enough to make King, 54, decide to stop publishing at year's end. As he revealed to the Los Angeles Times, his greatest "nightmare" is "finish[ing] up like Harold Robbins," the novelist who churned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 11, 2002 | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

After the nordic portion, Harvard sat just ahead of 11th-place Saint Michael’s College with 122 points, needing a strong showing from the alpine team to move up in the standings...

Author: By Tyson E. Hubbard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skiing Slips at Dartmouth | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...alpine team gave what it could. Despite not being able to catch Bowdoin or hold off Saint Michael’s, the Crimson still had a strong showing...

Author: By Tyson E. Hubbard, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Skiing Slips at Dartmouth | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...Ford, Americans enjoy finding the easy way out of their problems. By individualizing their lives and having them buck the system, rather than perform a noble action, Ford suggests that most Americans would much rather become the drug user, failure or adulterer, to be the sinner, not the saint. But Ford’s stories, though their generalizations may be accurate, apply only to a specific group of Americans who are set (or so they think) in their well-paying jobs, nuclear families, and suburban homes. A Multitude of Sins may well be a classic, but only of the aging...

Author: By Ian P. Campbell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ford: Everybody's Doing It | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

...England, Italy, and Germany also train apprentice players, but they must find their future stars on their own. In effect, the INF provided French clubs with a pool of young, precociously gifted players to recruit from. As a result, the youth programs of French teams like Nantes, Cannes, Saint-Etienne, Montpellier and Auxerre became factories of exceptional young talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Foreign Legion | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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