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...Woolf--you can't commit suicide until you're published." Jack, whose fluorescent grin almost distracts from his fading good looks, still believes he has It. ("I get chicks lookin' at me all the time, all ages. Dudes too.") With a true actor's magnificent focus and minute attention span, he's so in the moment than he can convince himself of anything, including that a night of great sex is a cue to call off the wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Sweet Sip of a Dark Vintage | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...surprisingly, none of that appears to faze the diminutive, coolly confident Zucker, a Miami native with a notoriously short attention span who was once described affectionately by NBC News anchor Brian Williams as the fantasy love child of Don Rickles and Don Corleone. "There's a lot of attention on us because we have been king of the hill for the last decade. But we are exactly where we thought we would be," says Zucker. A master salesman whose ability to massage stars' egos and broker deals with talent is legendary, Zucker takes a decidedly glass-half-full view...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC's New Reality | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

Harvard’s offensive outburst has been quite impressive over the past five games, having scored 16 goals during that span. Prior to this streak, the Crimson had scored just 12 goals in its opening nine games...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Offensive Streak Continues for M. Soccer | 10/27/2004 | See Source »

...never good to let them score two goals in the span of four minutes when theres still like 10 minutes left in the game, Craig said...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Moves Up With Princeton Win | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...long and branched like modern feathers, are the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs sported plumage. Because Dilong paradoxus is one of the earliest tyrannosaurs, Norell and his colleagues infer that its larger, more advanced relatives, including T. rex, must have had feathers for at least part of their life span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: Dinosaur Tales | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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