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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Parents are sending their children to Harvard, to Boston, where it is supposedly safe; and that is an image the administration wants to keep," said Lisa B. Eisen '97, a co-director of Peer Relations and Date Rape Education...
...that the new legal strategy of states filing third-party claims against the tobacco companies to recoup the Medicaid dollars spent treating smoking-related illness involves possible monetary settlements--and legal fees--so huge that anti-tobacco litigation is now attracting the top guns of tort law. To date, five states--Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, West Virginia and Massachusetts--have filed such suits. Maryland plans to join the fray soon, and Texas may follow. In most states, prestigious private firms have agreed to bear all costs of litigation, hoping to recoup those, and much more, from their percentage of projected billion...
...catch on to her? No: he takes off her shoes as she sleeps, and later she leaves him a message wishing him happy birthday. That's enough for a rapturous moment of modernist romance. He'll hold on to that memory forever. "And if it must have an expiration date," he says, "I hope it'll be 10,000 years...
Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained. But it's the cinema verve of Wong's five films to date that makes them wholly his, whether he's doing gangster films (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels), young-rebel dramas (Days of Being Wild) or kung-fu sagas (Ashes of Time, a film so beautifully bizarre it might be the first Martian-arts movie). The elements of his visual style: nightscapes (bars, beds, jukeboxes); sulky boys in white shirts; anomie punctuated by awful violence; murky lighting, as if scenes had been shot underwater and daubed...
...largest study to date on the health effects of breast implants shows that they may somewhat increase the risk of connective-tissue diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis. The study of nearly 400,000 female health professionals found that women with implants are 24% more likely to report such diseases than women without implants...