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...library. Enacting an honor system could also solve the hassle and degradation of opening up one's backpack upon leaving a library. Perhaps Harvard could even consider unproctored examinations which would aid those who perform better in a comfortable setting without hearing everyone else furiously writing and some stranger calling out the time every five minutes...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: An Honorable Proposition | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

Walter is no stranger to electronic media. He helped bring TIME into the online world in 1992 with an early alliance with AOL, and he served as Time Inc.'s editor of new media before returning to take the top job at TIME. A native of New Orleans, Walter joined TIME in 1978 after stints at the Sunday Times of London and his hometown Times-Picayune/States-Item. He has held a series of key positions at TIME, including editor of the Nation section and assistant managing editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Change In Leadership (And No Recount) | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Shyamalan wrote Unbreakable, the story of a man who survives a horrific train wreck and the stranger he encounters afterward, with two actors in mind: Willis (as the survivor) and Jackson (as the stranger). He was drawn to Willis for his Everyman quality and to Jackson for his incantatory elocution. Jackson returns the compliment. "[Shyamalan] knows how to use language," says the actor. "He gives characters an opportunity to express themselves. They tell you how they feel about certain things, how they feel about certain people, how they feel about themselves. But he also doesn't do it in such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A New Day Dawns For Night | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Smile at a stranger...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: It's More About the Giving | 11/22/2000 | See Source »

...worked hard enough for George, that he resented George's relatively greater success and was worried that a George in the White House would almost certainly mean there would never be a Jeb there one day. Now those notions and rumors could harden into truths passed on from one stranger to another: Jeb had failed. He had sabotaged his brother's campaign. He couldn't deliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Reversal of... ...Fortune | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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