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...wait a minute! A wire through the breast? A scar? A grape? We're talking about my breasts, which I happen to be quite fond of. And given their modest proportions, I hardly had any to spare. Fear and vanity battled for control. Even though 80% of biopsies are benign, I was terrified the doctors would find cancer. I panicked. I wanted another opinion. Lots of other opinions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Summer Scare | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...tragedy allows awed and then self-righteous absorption. Marie clings far too long to a rich, womanising slickster (Gregoire Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wings of Desire: Zonca Is A Good Guy | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

Aside, perhaps, from that lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead, Harry Potter will seem familiar to anyone who has ever read a decent fairy tale. Harry, 11, is an orphan who lives with his aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, and their son Dudley. Is it worth pointing out that the Dursleys are as dreadful as one might expect of people named Dursley--they make that step-family of Cinderella's seem merely ill-tempered by comparison--and that young Dudley is a fat, spoiled bully who keeps breaking Harry's glasses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wizard of Hogwarts | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...shell game can't last. If he runs, Bush will have to build bridges between bitterly divided camps. Ugly fights are inevitable, which means that by the time this race is over, father and son may have something else in common: scar tissue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Bush Rolodex | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...spend all of last weekend avoiding your love because you didn't think your super-square parents would approve. The wounds won't scar if you make it up to your sweetie at "Our Love Is Here to Stay," with Lynne Jackson and Mike Palter, part of the George Gershwin Centennial Celebration. Soon blue skies will be smiling at you too. Orpheum Theatre, Foxborough Common, Foxborough. 508-543-2787. 3 p.m. $26.50 students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUNDAY MAR 14 | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

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