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...that's the rationale that has kept me going. With Goodfellas it was a little bit hard on my parents, I MUST SAY. That hurt a little bit. They were there. but I keep thinking, it's a good thing I didn't, because I would have gotten a swollen head. I think I would have gotten in more personal trouble than I did in reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Director's Cut | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...personally arranged with the enemy Spartans. In “Lysistrata,” another comedy by Aristophanes, the women of Athens go on a sex strike to force their men to give up a ruinous war. Soon, the soldiers can no longer fight because of their chronically-swollen members. Since the phallus is a symbol of peace in both cases, the violence of the phallus-breakers is especially ironic...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: The Broken Phallus of Harvard Yard | 2/19/2003 | See Source »

Likewise, parents don’t want to explain the dreaded threat of non-conventional warfare to impressionable children. It’s quite difficult to explain to a child how poison gas stops your respiratory system, how it leaves your body swollen with scabs and rashes, or how it makes you bleed through your pores. Worse still, try explaining that the mask is useless against blistering agents, which enter through the skin...

Author: By Jonathan P. Abel, | Title: Toying with Terrorists | 2/6/2003 | See Source »

...Iraq. But Owaid, who has blood cancer, is not getting any better. He has clots in his eyes and his lips are bleeding. Yasmin says that many kids in her village are falling sick. Most of them have the same symptoms: fever and pain in their joints because of swollen lymph nodes. Dr.Hussan walks past rows of sick beds, talking to desperate parents and their children. "All these patients are the same," he says. "They are all victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Iraq: The Children's Ward | 1/25/2003 | See Source »

...kindergarten to 3rd grade classes, 22 in grades 4-8 and 25 in classes for grades 9-12. The state must also implement gradual reductions along the way. The idea is a noble one; after all there are Florida schools where 45 kids sit in one room, or five swollen classes meet in the gym. Like many noble ideas, it's also expensive. Florida already has a shortage of both teachers and classrooms. Mandatory class sizes will require a lot more of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeb Bush's Delicate Florida Balancing Act | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

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