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...gets annoyed when I make this argument because she says the troubadours were only observing something that already existed. But I'm not so sure. C. S. Lewis argues that they actually invented something new in the human heart, and we've been copying it ever since. In a thousand different ways, we all learn the rudiments of romantic love from popular culture. Kids learn how to kiss and flirt from the movies and TV, and then spend the rest of their lives trying to live up to dumb clichés they learned as children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Me Do's and Don'ts | 2/9/2001 | See Source »

Last night, Kagame claimed that, since 1994, three million Rwandan refugees have been repatriated and 300,000 orphans resettled in homes. Eighty-five thousand prisoners--suspected genocide perpetrators--remain in prison, he said, waiting to be tried...

Author: By Kristoffer A. Garin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crowd Presses Rwandan President on Congo | 2/6/2001 | See Source »

...Several thousand people could be crowded into the bowels of Lamont in the event of an air raid, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, told The Crimson last night. "It would be pretty stuffy," he admitted, "but it could be done...

Author: By From THE Crimson archives, | Title: Crimson History | 1/31/2001 | See Source »

...nervous and sold out to preserve a billion dollars in short-term profits. This scared all the rest of the big players, and like lemmings, they followed suit. It is these big players who cause the problems, not the little guys like me who have invested only a few thousand dollars. The big players could do all of us a gigantic favor by thinking long term like the rest of us, the little guys. MARK DORNBLASER Lafayette, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 29, 2001 | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

Usually, nobody loves pink slips like Wall Street. Job cuts are how bloated companies - and newly married behemoths - cut costs, and of course a few thousand more unemployed can do wonders for Alan Greenspan's inflation fears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuts at Chrysler: A Sign of the Times? | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

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