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...There's a sense of d?j? vu about the frenzied speculation concerning the identity and character of this alleged Kim. For years, North Korea-watchers have engaged in the same kind of tea-leaf reading about Kim Jong Il. Before he ascended to the throne, he was reported to be a womanizer, big drinker and pornography freak. But North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Was That Stranger? | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...Best Friend. Ewan McGregor, as the poor writer who falls for the courtesan, is a nouveau Gene Kelly--a hunky Joe with a radiant smile, haunting the Left Bank like An American in Paris, twirling an umbrella a la Singin' in the Rain. There's something else deja vu about this pair: they have the innocence and maturity of the great old stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Face The Music | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...puzzled by The Crimson’s call to eliminate the student role at the IOP (Editorial, “Deja Vu at the IOP,” April 24). Since the Institute’s founding in 1966, students and staff alike have remained committed to ensuring that undergraduates are deeply involved in Institute activities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...shirts. Outside B.J.'s Wholesale Club in Medford, Mass., a white stretch limo waits at the curb while its passengers roam the cavernous discount warehouse. At Tom's Barber Shop in Jacksonville, lawyers and executives sit down next to truckers and shipyard workers for a $6 trim. At Deja Vu, a Palm Beach boutique that sells used designer clothes, women who once sent their maids and drivers to the back door with bundles of high-fashion castoffs to sell now bring them by in person and stick around to shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME 1991 Cover Story: The Simple Life | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

...Francisco's, has changed. I have also grown up and, in spite of my youthful protestations, acquired a taste for a more comfortable life. Even if by magic I could return to San Francisco and live on a pittance in a ramshackle flat--even one with a fabulous "vu"--I'm not so sure I would jump at the chance. To paraphrase William Butler Yeats: That is no country for middle-aged men and women who, like the city itself, have gone a trifle soft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to the Garden | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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