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...July, James Rea Garrett was appointed as a temporary director, and the first-years were able to strap on their backpacks in August...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brent Bell Climbs to Top of FOP | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

...around in a tuxedo and plastic lei, a conical hat affixed to your head with an elastic chin strap, washing down fish eggs with carbonated white wine, as some glorified Bar Mitzvah band plays Public Enemy's Don't Believe the Hype, has always seemed to me a pretty lame way to spend the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Believe the Hype | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...with a 90's style flagrant homosexual) and the outies making life miserable for the innies--in a way that anyone who was not a J. Crew pedagogue in high school can appreciate. Sprinkle in a cyber-romance, a couple of tequila shots and a big handful of bra-strap headbands, and you've got a movie. But this movie is also a crash-course in teen angst, dealing with issues of deadbeat dads, cancer-fighting moms, weight problems and basically any other issue that can currently be seen on any late-night Lifetime movie. And, like any self-respecting...

Author: By Deirdre Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TGIF + Britney Spears = Tiger Beat Heaven | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...Issatu's father is humble, polite and upset. "Any time she goes somewhere with us, I want to cry because they have destroyed her looks," he says. Issatu went to Handicap International's clinic in Freetown and got a leather strap to help her hold a spoon on the end of her right arm. She smiles as she shows it off. "Before, I used to eat by holding the spoon between my arms," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...another dimension?--harboring fatal secrets. Scenarist Koepp (Jurassic Park) smoothly adapts a novel by Richard Matheson (What Dreams May Come) with vagrant similarities to The Sixth Sense. The payoff is relatively small change, but the setup is persuasive: a portrait of a blue-collar marriage in mute distress. And strap yourselves in for the spookiest, most imaginative hypnosis scene in movie memory. You are getting...very...scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Stir Of Echoes | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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