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Wait a minute. Why should the most successful filmmaker in history subject himself to these dicta, jotted down in half an hour by a couple of daffy Danes? Why would any director toss away the tools of power and sorcery that the movies have spent a century developing? No 150-person crew, no wide screen, no post-synchronizing of dialogue, no flashbacks, no E.T. or dinosaurs. No tripod for the camera. And no director's credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Putting on the Dogme | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Harvard won the overtime coin toss and decided to go second. (In college football, each team is guaranteed at least one possession in overtime.) Holy Cross tried a trick play that failed, then threw incomplete, then ran for two yards. A 40-yard field goal attempt missed wide right, so the Crimson only needed a field goal...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL FINISHES DISAPPOINTING 4-6 | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

...question now is: Does random drug testing of welfare recipients serve any important safety or law enforcement rationale?" Stay tuned: Sanders believes that this case may make its way to the Supreme Court, and speculates that despite the court?s current leanings, the Justices may see fit to toss the tests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fill Out These Forms... and Fill Up This Cup | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Duckman, a high jumper, long jumper and javelin thrower, has been slowed down from time to time but never stopped. As a young man growing up in Bayonne, N.J., he could toss a football 65 yds. He briefly hoped for a career in professional baseball, but he didn't perform well under big-time pressure. Instead he worked days in the local General Motors plant, studied for a bachelor's degree at night and became a schoolteacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...jumping at a local high school, but for understandable liability reasons, the school did not offer javelin instruction. So Duckman watched videotapes of the best javelin throwers in the world and slowed the action to study their style. He won a bronze medal in the '95 Games with a toss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In The Long Run | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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