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...dozens of others between Newark Airport and the Lincoln Tunnel. The van's Anglo contingent is fairly sure that the rocky bluff has no name. Don Domingo consults perplexedly with his companions Don Martin, Don Nicolas, Don Andres, Don Hilario, Don Ascencio and Don Juan Gabriel. This place is stranger than they had imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strangers in a Land Of Strange Mountains | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...wrongly pronounced Awzies; the correct pronunciation is Ozzies, though we'd rather you Yanks dropped the dumb pseudo-intimacy altogether and just called us Australians) are all supposed to be as straight as Harrison Ford or John Wayne, despite our superficially confusing habit of addressing a friend or a stranger of the same sex as "mate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

Having a child later in life is rewarding, Sara says, but she knows her choice is not universally popular. She says she has lost out on jobs because some bosses wouldn't accommodate her needs as a single mom. Then there was the stranger on the subway who struck up a conversation and when she found out Hansard was a single mom, railed that what she was doing was morally wrong. Sara told her off. "I wanted to be a parent, and in my case, I happened not to be married," she says. "I'm not apologizing to anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom on Her Own | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...years as a journalist, both as a reporter for the London Sunday Times and as editor of that paper's much acclaimed Insight investigative team. He has also co-authored six nonfiction books with such titles as The Cocaine Wars and War in the Falklands. If truth is stranger than fiction, then Eddy has clearly witnessed firsthand a lot of strange stuff. Why then has he now decided to write fiction? Has he seen some things it would be prudent to disguise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Say Hello to Our Woman Flint | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

This is even stranger. He turns out to have a very responsible job as a senior producer at a network television show in New York. The network might not be amused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Lance Morrow Quoting Chaucer... | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

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