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...They look really sleek," said Perry G. An '01, eyeing the two new Kirkland House computer lab Macintoshes...

Author: By Shira H. Fischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flat-Screens, G4s Arrive in Labs | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

Special Agent. It sounds cool and sleek. It sounds like I own black sunglasses...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Special Agent Wimp | 9/15/2000 | See Source »

...hopeless at ball sports. But at 6 ft. 4 in. and 200 lbs., with natural buoyancy and a basketballer's feet and hands, he can move water like the moon. His cartoon elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian Olympians, "if you were going to put a swimmer together from scratch, you'd build Ian Thorpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Summer Olympics: Ian Thorpe | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...unimpressive in the gym and hopeless at ball sports. But at 193 cm and 90 kg, with natural buoyancy and a basketballer's feet and hands, he can move water like the moon. His cartoon elasticity, combined with the longest stroke in swimming, makes "Thorpedo" everything his nickname suggests: sleek, smooth, strangely beautiful and, to the competition, lethal. "If you were going to do a Frankenstein," says Brian Sutton, coach of nine Australian Olympians, "if you were going to put a swimmer together from scratch, you'd build Ian Thorpe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profile: Ian Thorpe | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

...season does have its innovations. James Cameron's sleek sci-fi thriller, Dark Angel (Fox, Tuesdays, 9 p.m., starts Oct. 3), introduces buzz magnet Jessica Alba. On NBC's endearingly oddball Ed (Sundays, 8 p.m., begins Oct. 8), a lawyer moves back to his hometown, buys a bowling alley and courts his high school crush. And teen-TV satire Grosse Pointe (The WB, Fridays, 8:30 p.m., bows Sept. 22) looks like nasty fun. Are sitcoms and dramas back? Well, at least until Survivor returns, with its clones, to vote them off the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall Preview: A Taste Of Autumn | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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