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...part - the Army I signed up for - began. As we sat on the bus waiting to leave Reception Camp for Basic Training, our heads down so we wouldn't be able to find our way back, a drill sergeant popped his head in to say a hearty good-bye. "Y'all can make it," he said. "But y'all gonna get scuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Swallow the Big D — Discipline | 11/24/1999 | See Source »

...cards and graduate to the various levels of video games. The TV show propagandizes each new creature with a tutorial called "Who's that Pokemon?" Most of the Pokemon growl their names repeatedly ("Squirtle, Squirtle, Squirtle"), so the children learn who's who quickly. The craze is also Gen Y Web-friendly: the most popular website for kids 12 years and younger is Pokemon.com It's all Pokemon, all the time. At least until the next craze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of the Poke Mania | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Feng Y. Xu '03, a representative of the Chinese Students Association (CSA), said she especially liked the pad thai, which is a famous Thai dish of rice noodles...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cultural Extravaganza Draws 150 | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...Susie Y. Huang '02 is one of those who cannot get away from her studies. She has the misfortune of having two midterms today and two on Monday...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students prepare for The Game, Take 116 | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

...being extravagant specifically in mind, they inevitably turn out muddled and less than satisfying. Think back to really effective action sequences in recent movies, and you'll see it was their simplicity which made them compelling: from the straightforward careening of the bus in Speed, to the unpretentious mano y mano fighting in The Matrix. In the modern Bond world, everything must turn on fancy gizmos, fancier gizmos to counteract the original fancy gizmos, and if there's time, some more fancy gizmos, all of which have been concocted for the express purpose of being featured in fancy action sequences...

Author: By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The World Is Not So Good | 11/19/1999 | See Source »

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