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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...span the issues that his support tends to be shallow; voters who like him often can't say why. But if his ideology--a dab of conservatism here, a touch of moderation there--remains difficult to pin down, that is precisely the idea. His self-styled New Republican approach continues to draw supporters from across his party's ideological spectrum. By emphasizing issues like education, for example, Bush is attracting women voters at levels other Republicans can only envy. He is even winning favorable reviews from a majority of moderate and conservative Democrats, according to data collected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Feeding Both Sides | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

This is a war fought with bombers and artillery, though the dirty, killing work of real combat will probably increase as the Russian troops approach Grozny, the Chechen capital. Reports filtering out of the front lines are filled with talk of shortages of warm clothes, sleeping bags, gloves and socks for the troops, who will have to spend a bitterly cold winter in the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chechen Hell | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Moments such as these, however, are too scarce in a film that ends up expending most of its energy working through two major structural problems: an increasingly absurd plot and the difficulties of adapting a novel that consists primarily of first person interior narration. Jordan unadvisedly takes a literal approach here, employing the most drab, extensive set of voiceovers since the awful pre-director's cut version of Blade Runner. (Haven't seen it? Don't.) Fiennes, a subtle actor, is forced to explicitly identify every emotional state his character enters. Does Bendrix really need to tell us how "tortured...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coldness Overwhelms Romance, Strong Acting in Affair | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Flaubert) and occasionally from other poets or novelists to support her airy-sounding ideas. But the skeptical reader's sensibilities will hesitate to accept these categories, mechanisms, formats, processes or other structures imposed upon the activity of imagination guided by words. Dreaming by the Book is a rather formulaic approach to an extremely free-flowing activity...

Author: By Patty Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radiant Ignition: Scarry Puts the Psychology Back in Lit-Crit | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Students can also take yoga at Bodyworks Cambridge, where director Ayn Rose has been teaching yoga for over 20 years with an approach that she says will bring out the vitality in her students...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tai Chi's Graceful Motions Help Students Relax | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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