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...born," says Dylan. "When I came into the world, that spirit of things was still very strong. Billie Holiday was still alive. Duke Ellington. All those old blues singers were still alive. And I met and played with many of them. I learned a whole bunch of stuff from them. And that was the music that was dear to me. I was never really interested in pop music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legend Of Dylan | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...convenient and check back in when you want. If all parents had the necessary resources and educational background, then home schooling might approach the equality-of-opportunity standard that characterizes our nation. It fails that simple test, and the smug, self-righteous superiority of home schoolers is not the stuff that makes a great people, regardless of the test scores. Get out in the community, and work to make your public schools better! Your attitude is intolerant and mean-spirited. LON C. THOMAS JR. High Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 2001 | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...funnyman, but it's close. "The humor section," he whines into the phone, speaking long distance from Paris, where he has been living because he's a smoker and so are most Parisians, "is the last place an author wants to be. They put your stuff next to collections of Cathy cartoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Humorist: David Sedaris: Wry Slicer | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...continues, "Cesar Ritz set a certain set of standards 100 years ago, and they still strive to meet those standards. He's truly a successful man because he created a set of standards to help [the staff] strive to be better, and not just at work, either." Pretty ambitious stuff for a cook. Especially when it would be a lot easier to just yell a lot and get your own sitcom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chef: Captain Cook | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...admittedly a bit odd that we chose Andy Delbanco as America's best social critic. He is a historian of American literature, a man who looks back for a living, who reads and rereads, even in middle age, books like Moby-Dick and poems by Walt Whitman, stuff most of us leave behind after 11th grade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Social Critic: Civic Booster | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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