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...constitute a mixed group: 26 Caucasians, 24 African Americans and 11 Hispanics. From her narrow kitchen, where the fax machine is wedged between the microwave and the electric grill pan, Harris heaps scorn on the naysayers as she whips up cheese sandwiches for lunch. "The people who yell the loudest aren't the ones raising these kids," she scoffs. "Unless you're willing to take these babies into your home for 18 years, your opinion means nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benevolent Bribery--Or Racism? | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...really just the stalling, I think, that landed me in the slow group. I didn't like being a member of the slow group. It brought back bad memories of having a gym teacher yell that skipping is "a jump and a hop." Which, I still argue, it isn't. Either way, it's not what you want to be thinking about when you're going 70 m.p.h. through a hairpin and you're 5 in. from the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Got a Fast Car | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson's news comp. That humanity wasn't only students. Professors and teaching fellows bent over backwards to make things easier on me, arranging scribes for tests and extensions on papers. My parents loved me hard through a long distance phone connection. My brother called and listened to me yell in frustration. I'm a writer, I screamed. Where are my hands...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting the Pieces of College Life Together | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

Tarzan is a movie to restore a proud tradition of popular art. And it gives the Disney company something to yell about. From the treetops, in triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...Tarzan is determined to "be the best ape ever." Frustrated that he can't growl exactly like his ape friends, he is advised by Kala to "just come up with your own sound." He does, and he likes it. The Tarzan yell is a shout of young maturity, of his interspecies uniqueness. But later, when he falls in love with Jane yet feels obliged to stay with his ape family to protect them, the yell carries a wrenching pathos. It is the primal scream of someone who doesn't know if he's man or monkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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