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Holy Cross then drove the length of the field on nine plays, highlighted by a 54-yard scramble by Hall, for a touchdown, putting the Crusaders up 27-18. Hall eluded the blitzing junior defensive end Phil Scherrer and darted up the right sideline, eluding several Crimson would-be tacklers...

Author: By Mackie Dougherty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Can't Convert | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...factly. Making the decisions himself about what happens to his few possessions lets him feel better--so much better that his health has actually improved a bit since he rejected further treatment. "He gets comfort from knowing things are in order," explains Shenk, "and decreased stress often increases the length of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Stories: In Their Last Days On This Earth | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...also fear regulatory scrutiny, since the U.S. Health Care Financing Administration has actually ordered investigations of hospice patients who live longer than six months. Some fear that a short prognosis will be self-fulfilling, and many just don't like to tell someone he is dying. Hence the average length of stay in U.S. hospices is between two and three weeks, hardly enough time to take advantage of a hospice's supportive environment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Kinder, Gentler Death | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...witty, often breezy autobiographical work of director Francois Truffaut helped inspire Almost Famous, but Crowe found his film's muse nearly 30 years ago. At the same time that he was embarking on his journalism career, a striking young Portland, Ore., woman, standing 5 ft. 10 in. with waist-length red hair, moved to Los Angeles to be with a keyboard player for Steppenwolf. There she became enamored of musicians and their milieu, and when she returned to Portland, she continued hanging out with the bands that came through town. Adopting the name Pennie Lane and a vintage 1940s wardrobe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: As The Crowe* Flies | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...Broadway revival. Fighting for their party's presidential nomination are Secretary of State William Russell, a high-minded patrician liberal who believes politics is a process of educating people about the issues, and Senator Joe Cantwell, an expert at grabbing headlines with sensational investigations who will go to any length to win. He threatens to destroy Russell by releasing his medical records. Russell's team has dug up some dirt of its own on Cantwell, but Russell has doubts about sinking to his opponent's level by using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backstage at 'The Best Man' | 9/17/2000 | See Source »

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