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...United States went to war, the fighting in the Middle East played out here in a series of protests and counter-protests. Personal nastiness re-emerged, as though justified by political passion. Serious confrontations were avoided during demonstrations. But all parties tested the limits of regulations designed to protect the rights of the nonpartisan majority to study and live in peace, while protecting the rights of groups advocating a point of view to express that view visibly and audibly to those who chose to listen. There was, of course, nothing new in all that, except the issues being contended...

Author: By Harry R. Lewis, | Title: Harvard in America, a Year Later | 9/11/2002 | See Source »

...intensity with which they are delivered. Sometimes there's a variation, such as "C'mooannn, Rocky!", a salute to Hewitt's fictional fighting hero Rocky Balboa. He carries a dvd of Rocky IV on the road to crank himself up, although that seems unnecessary, considering the passion he puts into his game. "It helps me when I show some emotion out there," says Hewitt, 21. Emotion, even if it's negative, he says, "gives my opponent a bit of a snit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serving Up Some Attitude | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...resonant death in the opening episodes (sorry, I'm not saying who), but it comes in a traffic accident, not a Mob hit. That's the trick of The Sopranos: it pulls you in with the tease of intrigue and death, and it ends up enthralling you with the passion and sadness of ordinary life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Back In Business | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...times," she says, referring to the professional surfing competition held at Teahupoo each May. With her sun-bleached blond hair and slim, muscular build, Kennelly, 24, is one of the growing cadre of elite female surfers who are transforming the once male-dominated sport of surfing into both a passion and a pastime for a growing number of women around the world. Fierce and strong yet graceful and elegant, she represents a new kind of athlete that girls can dream of becoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Girls in the Curl | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

...known theater pieces (Bash: Latterday Plays and The Shape of Things) are cunning investigations into the way people hurt people. Now, in his version of A.S. Byatt's Booker prizewinning novel, Possession: A Romance, he has ventured into Merchant-Ivory territory: that foreign country called the English past, where passion bursts from the corset of propriety and love is the most beautiful work two poets can create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Love Among the Stacks | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

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