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...Mario Lemieux. His return in December from three years of retirement was impressive. His performance since has been downright inhuman. Still, I couldn't help but feel a bit uncomfortable when they lowered his No. 66 from the rafters. His first retirement capped a brilliant career, including a storybook comeback from Hodgkin's disease. Lemieux's reappearance, though pleasant, seems to detract from the glory of his initial ride into the sunset...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Going Away Often | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

...anybody has the right to throw a shameless multi-million dollar storybook wedding that spares no expense, it should be Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones. After all, Douglas is a freakin' billionaire and well, he's never gonna get a girl like Catherine again. (Let me say for the record, that I still am floored by the fact that she had a baby. That means they had/have sex. Yikes.) Why, then, did they have to turn it into such a sketchy affair? First, Douglas secured an exclusive $1.4 million deal with OK! Magazine to publish the official wedding photos...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...nearby bayside town of Harbor Springs (pop: 2,500), with its pretty decorations and lights, huge community tree and friendly shopkeepers, completes what Laila dubs "a winter wonderland, like something out of a storybook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Not Home For The Holidays | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...house in Paris covered with vines" that the storybook Madeline kept the peace - but she didn't have to contend with two peoples who'd been at each other's throats for a half-century. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright managed to coax Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat into the same room for crisis talks in Paris on Wednesday, after Arafat had initially demanded an international inquiry into the recent wave of violence as his price. But back home, the killings continued, with fierce battles raging in Gaza and the West Bank claiming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Paris, It's Another Mideast Square One | 10/4/2000 | See Source »

...year-old can safely enjoy it. But Suzi Schiffer Parrasch, who reviews TV and videos for FamilyWonder.com says, "Every Disney film I watch is violent. They all have very dark, scary moments. Parents should know every single frame of these films, just as they know every page of a storybook." Two excellent websites give parents detailed descriptions of the content of animated movies: kids-in-mind.com and screenit.com Both sites offer ratings of movies that go well beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Violent Cartoons | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

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