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...Everyone else made their [running-mate] decisions with the sole purpose of garnering votes," said the presidential candidate from Salt Lake City, who enjoys fishing and target shooting ("not animals!") in his spare time...

Author: By Tonisha M. Calbert and David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Profile of Leonard-Tenney | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...style that looked spare in one movie can feel bloated in the next. That's the case with The Green Mile, reverently taken from King's serialized novel. It's 1935, and we're on a Southern prison's death row, where the only recreation is watching a mouse commandeer the corridor. Enter a new inmate, John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), a giant black man with a gift of preternatural empathy; he can literally suck the pain out of people. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), the chief guard of E Block, is in awe of this white magic. He benefits from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Doing Hard Time On Death Row | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Though a bit artificial at first, Jessica Shapiro '01 eventually shines as Kate Quin, a perfectionist and future lawyer who acts out romance novels to herself during her spare time. And newcomers Eva Furro '03 and Carrie Roby '03 are excellent in their smaller roles--Roby especially as the silent freshman Carter...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, | Title: Common Problems for an 'Uncommon' Production | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...Alberto reads popular magazines, complex novels and hometown news in whatever spare time he finds. "I like W," he declared. "You figure out what styles arecoming out." He recently finished Cronica de Una Muerta Anunciada (Chronicle of A Death Foretold), by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "He's Columbian," Luis explained, "but heis lived in Spain, Mexico and Cuba. He told Fidel he was going to help, and he did. Fidel adores and admires him. He started a school of cinema there and has a house." Many stores in the area sell publications from El Salvador. "I keep up with the sports...

Author: By Tim Warren, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Working to Seguir: Luis Alberto | 12/9/1999 | See Source »

...three years, Clemmons, 42, who runs a hair-care-products company and has no formal scientific training, has devoted her spare time and more than $10,000 of her own money to solving everyone's favorite engineering enigma: how the Egyptian pyramids were built. Over the years, researchers have experimented with everything from ramps to levers in failed attempts to move counterparts of the three-ton pyramid stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Do You Build A Pyramid? Go Fly A Kite | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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