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...Snicker if you will--it's certainly understandable--but ANGELINA JOLIE actually earned the title of goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. While filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Jolie, 26, met former refugees who told her about the UNHCR. When she called requesting information, the organization offered to make her an ambassador on the spot. Rather than immediately accept, Jolie paid her own way to visit Africa, Cambodia and Pakistan to meet relief workers and refugees. Jolie accepted the title last week, and details of her African diary are available on the U.N. website. Besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 3, 2001 | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...JUDGMENT CALL Sexy? Maybe, but isn't this why we used to snicker at the refrigerator-repair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

...blame the schedule for stress over exams--they have to happen sometime, and they're going to be difficult whenever they occur. Sit back and relax over winter break; enjoy spending valuable time with family. Then, when old friends snicker that you are going back to school so early, let them know that you were considering visiting them during your week-long break at the end of January. That is, before you made plans to party in the Caribbean instead...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, | Title: No Time for Change | 1/19/2001 | See Source »

...they bother? With no countervailing news from the outside world, they assumed the Nazis had inherited the earth; that if anyone discovered their writings, it would be their killers, who would snicker and toss them away. They wrote because, like Kolesnikov, they had to. The impulse was in them, like a biological fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Am Writing Blindly" | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...Wednesday night, U.S. Senate candidates Rick Lazio and Hillary Clinton bared their teeth at each other in Buffalo, N.Y., bickering and occasionally answering questions from the local press and local voters. Throughout the assaults, both candidates remained grimly composed. There was an abundance of contemptuous laughter - the kind of snicker you force out when you're trying to show an audience that your opponent is lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rick and Hillary Battle to a Bloody Draw | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

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