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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...solution to the Harvard blues is out of bounds. And of course, of course it isn't a good idea to be a blithering idiot and drink yourself into a stupor and end up at UHS, any more than it's a good idea to go skinny-dipping in shark-infested waters or eat those 49-cent McDonalds cheeseburgers until you vomit...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: A Toast to Binge Drinking | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

DIED. EDDIE PARKER, 69, nimble, self-taught pool shark who earned the nickname "Fast Eddie" in high school and claimed to have inspired Walter Tevis' book and screenplay The Hustler (Tevis' widow disagrees); of an apparent heart attack; at the U.S. Classic Billiard Eight-Ball Showdown in South Padre Island, Texas. He was a money player but, he avowed, an honest one who never hustled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 19, 2001 | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...which the Kitano gruff guy serves as a young boy's nanny, he has returned to the crime genre with Brother. Shot in Tokyo and Los Angeles, this is a hyper-violent action movie with the standard fish-out-of-water plot?only this fish is a tiger shark. A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug. Aniki, as everyone calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead and the other half wants to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Unbeaten | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...just a 1500-mm camera talking about the alpha male and the alpha female." Animal Planet combines a sense of humor and emotion with an irreverent brand of extreme naturalism that crosses the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) with the WWF (World Wrestling Federation). There's Ian ("Shark") Gordon, who gets jaw-snappingly close to great whites. There's Jeff Corwin, who, facing angry elephants in Borneo, explains the need to stand still: "What you do privately in your underpants is your business. You don't run away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Squawking With the Animals | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Pittman has emerged as the battlefield commander, with what many view as an insurmountable goal: to shape Time Warner's disparate, shark-infested corporate divisions and AOL's single-minded Internet entrepreneurs into a lean, mean conquering force. Although Levin insisted that the new headquarters be in New York, the cost was the defenestration of much of Time Warner's corporate staff. Many of the top executive roles have gone to AOL. Middle managers from the two companies have clashed over, among other things, ad-sales strategies and Time Warner's compensation structure. "A lot of [AOL executives] came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Score One For AOLTW | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

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