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...survivor of sexual assault." Since I was a kid, perhaps the only thing more difficult than hearing these words is hearing them coming from my own lips. This truth has been with me for a long time and I have never spoken up. I have never reached out. So many acts of sexual assault go unrecognized and unacknowledged on this campus. It is time for all of us to speak up and reach out. I am a survivor of sexual assault...

Author: By Stephen N. Smith, | Title: Surviving Sexual Asault | 10/24/2000 | See Source »

...care about battleground states, likability polls or what those undecided people on NBC think after debates. These are people who signed up to tell America they don't have anything to say. And as soon as they decide, they get kicked off the panel. It's like Idiot Survivor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Vote | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...crisis--Midler has made a crusade of preserving New York City parks. "The character is much broader and sappier," she says. "She's harebrained and sexier, and I like those things." But there are similarities. Midler too has a husband and a teen daughter, and both Bettes have a survivor's stamina. Says Midler: "[The character] has a certain amount of drive and doesn't want to let go. She likes her little place in the sun and won't be booted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bette Midler Plays the Role of Her Life--Literally | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...plugged Bette heavily during Survivor and hopes it will draw some of that summer hit's young viewers. That seems iffy, not because its star was born in the middle of the past century but because its premise was. From her start belting '40s show tunes in the '70s, Midler has been a revivalist at heart, and her hooray-for-Hollywood vehicle is Jack Benny redux, a wannabe I Love Lucy with Midler as both Lucy and Ricky but without the innovation of its forebears. That said, it has the ingredients of a much better show. The writing is sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Bette Midler Plays the Role of Her Life--Literally | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...Survivor-in-space show was being pitched by Dreamtime Holdings, a Silicon Valley media company that had already signed an agreement with NASA to fly high-definition TV equipment aboard the space station and then market the images that were produced. With NASA apparently behind Dreamtime's new idea, no fewer than three major networks--CBS, ABC and Fox--were said to be interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NASA Goes Hollywood? | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

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