Patience dispels clock time and reveals a new time, the time of salvation. There was also opposition by those who thought an artificial system of time zones was against the natural order of the universe--clock time is an abstraction of nature and standard clock time is even more removed from the sun's actions.
(Agence France-Press)(pg. C9) Billy Crystal, aboard a mock-up of the Titanic, served as host of the 70th annual Academy Awards ceremony. (Associated Press) Matt Damon, left, and Ben Affleck won the Oscar for best original screenplay, for ''Good Will Hunting,'' in which the actors also starred.he other Oscar nominated films were ''As Good As It Gets,'' ''L.A. Confidential,'' ''The Full Monty'' and ''Good Will Hunting.'' The Oscar winners were selected by the 5,371 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Damon dated his Good Will Hunting co-star Minnie Driver. He later had a two-year relationship with actress Winona Ryder. From 2001 to 2003, he dated Odessa Whitmire, the former personal assistant of Billy Bob Thornton and Ben Affleck.amon attended Harvard University, where he was a member of the class of 1992, but left before receiving his degree in order to take a lead role in the film School Ties. While at Harvard he wrote an early treatment of the screenplay for Good Will Hunting as an exercise for an English class.