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...this, after all, is the life she bargained for. Two and a half years ago, Chen was a newly minted college grad just entering the working-stiff world as a credit analyst in the Hong Kong branch of a foreign bank. That was before she decided that her brother, teen idol Edison Chen, was having way more fun than she was. Meetings were held, a contract was signed?and Chen popped out of the Hong Kong star-making microwave like a sugar-coated pineapple bun. Her first single, Future Tense, was released to local radio stations last month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Star is Formed | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...Potter books in all, will deliver the fifth novel next year.) Running against the Hollywood tradition of sugar-coating every pill, Columbus is eager to let you know that your children may be very afraid. A presumably dead cat is hung in a Hogwarts hallway; Hogwarts students are frozen stiff ("petrified") by a monster; Harry and his sidekick Ron Weasley are attacked with surprising violence by a giant Whomping Willow after they crash-land a flying car in its gnarled branches. Later, they are chased through the Forbidden Forest by an army of giant spiders. The Mandrake plants - whose deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark Side of Potter | 10/27/2002 | See Source »

Both the men’s and women’s teams look forward to more stiff competition as they prepare for the Ivy League’s only Heptagonal meet at Van Cortland Park...

Author: By Matthew J. Amato, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seidel, Frosh Lead Cross Country in Indy Pre-Nationals | 10/22/2002 | See Source »

...breakfast with Bowles in Raleigh, I wonder if the race is between Stiff and Stiffer. Bowles, 57, who dresses and speaks like the banker he was, stresses Dole's opposition in 1989 to an increase in the minimum wage. In a state chock-full of seniors who didn't make it to Florida, he is scoring points with Social Security, which Dole, like Bush, would privatize, after a fashion. She now proposes that a modest 2% gointo private investments, but some worry even that amount could cripple the system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2002: Stealth Warriors from Washington | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...We’re really, really deep,” heavyweight co-captain Sarah Psutka said. “There was stiff competition to get in to the [first] boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Crews Hope to Rise to Challenge | 10/19/2002 | See Source »

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