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...fights. And poor white kids, he says, are tough. They're not like your suburbanized white kids; they got all this frustration and anger 'cause they're white, for crying out loud, and they're living in America, and they're living as bad as Negroes, for God's sake; so there's no way they're gonna let a scrawny, bused-in black kid from Bed-Stuy have a moment's worth of happiness. "Can you believe Andrew Dice Clay once went to my school?" Rock says, remembering. "He was way older, but that was the kind of student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock Star | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...sick of Jordan. For goodness' sake, he is not Mother Teresa. He is made out to be such an all-American good guy, when he is just another egocentric professional athlete. ROBERT LIEBMANN Scottsdale, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 13, 1998 | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...Days centers around Reilly, a twenty-something software developer living in the North End of Boston with his roommate, a fellow computer nerd. Reilly's character is completely underdeveloped, and the reader never understands why he makes his bad decisions without ever questioning them himself. For example, for the sake of a petty vendetta, Reilly puts himself, his roommate, his girlfriend and a slew of other characters in great physical danger by stealing the prize pooch of a local Mafioso. Reilly does not remotely consider the idea that he or his friends might be killed for their stupidity until they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dog Book Not Good, Too Boring for the Beach | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

...exercise (which, by the way, also decreases insulin levels). As a general rule, she adds, "the more processed a food, the less healthy it is. But [the glycemic index] can be carried to an extreme." So, eat your carrots, order up some whole-wheat toast and, for heaven's sake, get off that couch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sugar Busters! | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...receive a taste of the postmortem praise that awaits him. As was widely reported, due to a darkly comic technical snafu, the Associated Press prematurely announced Hope's death on its web site. Some members of Congress got wind of this and rushed to extol his virtues for the sake of the Congressional Record and C-SPAN audiences everywhere...

Author: By Rustin C. Silverstein, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE | 6/26/1998 | See Source »

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