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DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitch-cock's Psycho; in Beverly Hills. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 10/10/2004 | See Source »

Presentations sped forward with the verve of a variety show, thanks to “Miss Sweetie-poo,” a nine-year-old girl in a flowered dress who said, “Please stop—I’m bored,” repeatedly until long...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ig Nobel Awards Take Sanders | 10/1/2004 | See Source »

On the church’s stage, a bandanna-crowned Asian-American bounced to the beat of his electric guitar, crooning, “River flow. Fire Burn. Holy Spirit breathe on me.”  Behind him, a bored-looking man picked at an keyboard, while...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: scene and heard | 9/30/2004 | See Source »

The difficulty for Latham, so far, is that he hasn't fully learned the politician's slippery art of feigning interest when he's in unfamiliar territory; he's transparent, whether cranky or bored. In Tasmania's old-growth forests with Greens leader Bob Brown earlier in the year, Latham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latham's Ladder | 9/29/2004 | See Source »

Her fight to have Tri-County Community School teach Davin at a level commensurate with his rare intelligence--he has an IQ of 146--began when he was in first grade. Davin was always bored, but instead of recognizing his academic promise, Knipfer says, the school carped about her boy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: SAVING THE SMART KIDS | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

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