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...simply not true," she says. Her opening scene in Sassy buries that possibility: she wobbled drunk onto a subway train, vomited on a stranger's toupee and passed out in the arms of a scandalized young man (Cha Tae Hyun). Jun's bossy character quickly took control of her timid boyfriend's life. Through it all, Jun was in charge, and audiences loved it. Wild, free and utterly herself, Jun became a model for an assertive generation of young Asian women. "People have this notion that men have to be macho and women have to be pretty and act pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Force to Reckon With | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

...anywhere else,” says Akemi Yanada, a Cantabrigian who has shopped here since moving from Japan five years ago. She personally recommends their extensive noodle collection, which takes up more than one long supermarket aisle. If you’re too timid to undertake a full meal, the frozen food section has a large selection of hors d’oeuvres, from custard pastry puff to pre-cooked spring rolls. Want an instant party? Pop these in the microwave, set up some decorations and incense (both can be found toward the back...

Author: By Diana E. Garvin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: To Market, To Market | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

...anywhere else,” says Akemi Yanada, a Cantabrigian who has shopped here since moving from Japan five years ago. She personally recommends their extensive noodle collection, which takes up more than one long supermarket aisle. If you’re too timid to undertake a full meal, the frozen food section has a large selection of hors d’oeuvres, from custard pastry puff to pre-cooked spring rolls. Want an instant party? Pop these in the microwave, set up some decorations and incense (both can be found toward the back...

Author: By Diana E. Garvin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: To Market, To Market | 4/28/2004 | See Source »

...campaigns sail into Washington on a gust of fresh talent. In 1992 Bill Clinton was surrounded by new faces, from his rowdy team of political consultants to the New Democrat policy wonks who produced his agenda. Kerry, however, is engulfed by the sort of people Howard Dean railed against: timid congressional Democratic staff members and some of the old Clinton crowd, less hungry now, less rowdy, too rutted in past successes to try anything new. There are precious few sharp young people in positions of responsibility and--very strange for a Democrat--no prominent blacks or Latinos in the inner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Kerry's Silent Spring | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...that’s an overstatement, but he was male. And he was at speed dating also, which has to be a comment on his attainability—the number one trait I look for in a man. He said he had some friends who were waiting downstairs, too timid to enter the competitive speed dating scene first...

Author: By Sarah E.F. Milov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: One, Two, Three...Date! | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

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