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...must impute virtue for no reason other than that he fails in a sincerely believed-in, preferably noble cause. When was the last time one saw that? Before the 1980s, there was a public shame attached to too much success. That attitude was useless and irrational but also sweet-natured and not unhealthy. The underlying idea was that failure was something potentially good for you and for everyone, that rejection and loss were not only personally inuring but that losing was also a sign of high and admirable ambitions. To note how far the pendulum has swung, go see Wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vanished, Banished Beautiful American Loser | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...sweet," one FAST member says...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FAST Tries To Touch Lives of Square's Homeless | 3/8/2000 | See Source »

...matter how sweet the crown is, especially for a team in the process of rebuilding its program, it is at best a small consolation prize...

Author: By Jennie L. Sullivan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 867-5309: Crimson Draws Big Red Menace in First Round of ECAC Playoffs | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

Everyone knows the taste of sweet and sour, but what do hot and cold taste like? According to scientists from the Yale School of Medicine, temperature has its own flavors. Writing in the current issue of Nature, they report that warming the front of the tongue induces a suggestion of sweetness, and cooling it produces a salty or sour taste; chilling the back of the tongue, by contrast, creates a sour or bitter sensation. No one knows if these false taste sensations affect flavor, but experts suspect they are too faint for the brain to discern in the sensory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Matter of Taste | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...Vortex in London's West End, English actor Rupert Everett responded to a audience member's nasty critique of his acting by mailing her several of his pubic hairs. Luckily, current reviewers can rest assured, because his newest collaboration with Madonna, The Next Best Thing, is a sweet screenful of love and friendship that gives the real life friends a chance to play characters similar to themselves on the big screen. As Abbie and Robert, however, the duo fail to stretch their acting ranges as they tackle roles that prove to be too similar, if not parallel, to their...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Superstar Carrying Gay Man's Baby! | 3/3/2000 | See Source »

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