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...girls?who say they're 18 but look 14?touch up their lipstick as they draw leers from the men stumbling by. Mai pulls out her bleating cell phone and checks the number on the screen. "My mom," she tells Rika, tucking the phone back in a Starbucks tote bag without answering. Rika nods. Mai tosses her long hair and declares: "Tonight's an all-nighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teenage Wasteland | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Twist on Balzac | 12/3/2001 | See Source »

...important to bring a friend who is not planning on getting drunk and will take you home if necessary. My beef is with the fact that women have to do this. Why don’t guys who get pushy at parties after a couple of drinks have to tote along tee-totaling friends who will take them home before they end up taking advantage of some drunken girl? Why are women the ones who have to stay vigilant while men can do whatever the hell they want, at parties and bars, and other social arenas...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Excerpts from ThropTalk | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

Coitus lengthily interrupted has long been a romantic-comedy staple, and though Serendipity is a little vague about exactly how many years Jonathan and Kate tote their torches around with them, they are many. And the two make recent ventures into this territory (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) look hasty. Your affection for Serendipity may depend on how fascinated you are by a movie that is apparently going after the all-time record for delayed consummation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Affair To Forget | 10/8/2001 | See Source »

...least consistent noms de guerre, when they enrolled in flight school, rented apartments, bought cars. Police have impounded cars they used and searched apartments up and down the American East Coast and in Germany, hauling off bags of potential evidence. In Florida, the FBI picked up a discarded tote bag at the Panther Motel, where Al-Shehhi stayed during the past two weeks. Its contents: maps, flight manuals and martial-arts books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Breed of Terrorist | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

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