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...many Americans are attracted by simple, accessible news. Further, many of the older, more traditional papers, such as the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and Washington Post have absorbed a lot of the innovations that USA Today brought to the field. All are now using color, flashier graphics and shorter stories. Even the hallowed New York Times wouldn't be far from the truth if it changed its motto to "All the News, Blurbs, Graphics and Factoids That Are Fit to Print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: USA Today: Small Yesterday, Big Today | 11/11/1999 | See Source »

...clutching her most expensive handbag and making small talk so joyfully that the audience, knowing the harsh realities Flora is hiding, cannot help but shiver. At times, her simple charm can become aggravating. Twenty-Seven Wagons is not one of Williams' greatest short plays. As in many of his shorter works, he tends to overstate his point. But Brodesser speaks with such conviction that Flora's penchant for repetition seems more like a necessary part of her personality than a flaw in the text. By the time she delivers her final monologue, in which she turns her handbag into...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: All's Love and Lost in Seductions | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

...maintain larger cash reserves as mandated by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. So far, states have balked at the stricter XXX rule (for the Roman numeral), and rates have fallen dramatically. This year 25 states are mulling a softer version. If enacted, XXX will mean higher premiums or shorter-term guarantees. Even if XXX fails, locking in today's cheap rates couldn't hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...fact, since Murphy says the football season is shorter than most sports' seasons, their academic lives could be easier than other athletes' in this regard...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tackling Football Myths | 10/22/1999 | See Source »

...worse because this year, for the first time in about half a decade, the Red Sox reminded me how much I love baseball. Busy college life and an ever-shorter attention span had weakened my passion for the sport (though not for my team), and I'd taken to following college basketball and tennis more religiously than the national pastime. But Jimy Williams' Red Sox renewed my love of the game, and I became transfixed every time Pedro Martinez took the mound or even when the old warhorse Brett Saberhagen tested out his reconstructed shoulder. As Williams said in postgame...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: No Apologies | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

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