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...Even if the Hollywood hierachy is vexed or embarrassed by the Gospel according to Gibson-you may expect a few barbs thrown his way by Billy Crystal this Sunday at the Academy Awards- it is unlikely to shun him. This is, after all, a business that hires actors and directors who happen to be drug addicts, spouse-abusers and convicted felons. One man convicted of child molestation has directed films for Disney and New Line. Gibson's criminal rap sheet is clean; he is guilty only of standing by his deluded old man and expressing opinions that are less popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holy Hypocrisies | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...them in a familiar dialect, before hauling them off to the railway station for a forced ride home. As for Li, chances are he was swept up in a similar fashion. He will probably be back before long. After all, he has traveled to Beijing 150 times and been thrown out on each occasion. What is just one more trip for these veterans of lost causes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing Left To Lose | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

Mahan said that it might be possible for the council to increase the size of party grants next fall if the extended party hours become permanent and there are eight to 10 parties thrown per week...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Party Extra Hour | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

...Cornell and Columbia are both physical and scrappy teams,” co-captain Hana Peljto said. “Our plan this weekend is to react and adjust better to the defenses that are thrown at us than we did last time we played these teams...

Author: By Jon Dienstag, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Craves Consistency | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 16, 2004 | 2/16/2004 | See Source »

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