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 Post subject: Where's the philosophy?
PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 10:25 pm 
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Challenge: Find something in this dreadful, cliché-ridden feature that you haven't read or seen in bad movies a hundred times before.<p>[ June 05, 2004: Message edited by: blanp ]</p>


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 Post subject: Re: Where's the philosophy?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 11:41 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Where's the philosophy?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:00 pm 
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Yeah but you guys read all the way to the end, didn't you? <p>About halfway through I was wondering if the story was gonna break *any* new ground but I didn't find much.


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 Post subject: Re: Where's the philosophy?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:08 pm 
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Note, also, that this is an "interactive feature" from the N.Y. Times.


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 Post subject: Re: Where's the philosophy?
PostPosted: Wed Jun 02, 2004 12:18 pm 
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by jjmoney62:
Note, also, that this is an "interactive feature" from the N.Y. Times.<hr></blockquote><p>Then don't view it from a computer in Tampa.


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 Post subject: Re: Where's the philosophy?
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Apparently, it's never going to end.


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 Post subject: Re: Where's the philosophy?
PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 9:15 pm 
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At least it gives awards jurors something to read on those long, lonely nights.


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