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...Once she learns of her true genealogy, she becomes his lover, in spite of his hand getting mangled in an unrelated, purely sensational work accident. Now handless, the cuckold finds the real father and tricks him into raping his own daughter. Then there appears to be some sort of twist, sending the amputee to prison where he hangs himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living La Vida Perversa | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

...movies, books and boyfriends keeps the interaction casual and lighthearted. “We know about each other’s lives, but not our histories,” says McNulty. And despite bearing a shocking resemblance to the terminology of wrestling technique—think front cross, back twist and triple twisted rib—knitting jargon remains the common currency of the mild-mannered Stitch and Bitch community...

Author: By Angie Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eat, Drink, Stitch, Bitch | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

Yuck, preppies. Beloved William Hundert (Kevin Kline) teaches classics at snooty St. Benedict's. He gets his toga into a twist over a brat named Sedgewick Bell (Emile Hirsch), a cheeky cheat in whom he somewhat mysteriously detects good stuff. The conventions of the genre usually dictate that the boy will ultimately reform. The considerable originality of The Emperor's Club (directed by Michael Hoffman) lies in the fact that the kid gets worse, not better, going on to sleazy dotcom millions and, of course, politics. This leaves the prissily played Hundert sadder and wiser. But it still may leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outer and Inner Space | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...twist his nation's soul, Narendra Modi is first conquering its heart. He's halfway through another 20-hour day on his "Journey of Pride" across the western state of Gujarat, India's industrial powerhouse, and as everywhere, Modi is being mobbed. After a brief speech, he flops, sweating and exhausted, back into the passenger seat of his election campaign bus. The crowd won't leave him alone, however. They reach in through the windows of the bus, heaping armfuls of orange marigold garlands and heady rose petals onto his legs. But his supporters?fervent Hindus all?aren't taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modi's Law | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

...After a 171-day courtroom inheritance battle, a Hong Kong judge ruled on Nov. 21 that Nina Wang had "probably" forged her husband's will. The judge awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate to his 90-year-old father, Wang Din-shin. The decision is the latest twist in a case that dates back to Teddy Wang's unsolved 1990 kidnapping. (His body was never found, but he was declared dead in 1999). The tycoon had changed his will in 1968 after discovering that his wife was allegedly having an affair, and had named his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, Lies and Probates | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

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