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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mindset of self-sacrifice and a conviction that they can single-handedly make a difference in students’ lives. It’s a vision that is grossly ignorant of the reality of a world in which gangs murder students’ siblings and grandparents stand in for absent mothers and long-gone fathers...

Author: By Anjali Motgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘No Child’ Lacks Development | 12/16/2007 | See Source »

...Beethoven” stories, in their formal and thematic abrasiveness, perhaps working towards such a new idiom? Seen charitably, the fictional world of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black” is one of interracial mélange, in which, by disregarding syntax, we can circle the absent center of identity. As the title story’s protagonist probingly asks, “So what’s happened to the ideal of the Struggle (the capitalized generic of something else that’s never over, never mind history-book victories) for recognition, beginning...

Author: By Alison S. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Winner’s ‘Beethoven’ an Uneven Performance | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...large concentration of players in just a few organizations. It's safe to assume that the steroids problem was much, much more widespread than shown in this report. Mitchell himself admits his document is not comprehensive, and certain suspected users, like Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, were notably absent from the report. Further government probes may unveil more names, but some players will undoubtedly escape without being publicly identified. And until baseball finds a reliable urine test for HGH, you'll never know who is still using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitchell Named Names. Now What? | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...becomes not whom do you like, but who can win. That means, he says, that what the Republicans are mounting in 2008 is not a race of passion or principle but simply one of pragmatism. It may also explain why the party's normally ferocious enthusiasm is so far absent in every poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Race: None of the Above | 12/13/2007 | See Source »

...hopefully start going back to class soon,” adding that he and Sarafa would soon sit down to go over plans for their term, which begins next semester. Fellow candidate Frances I. Martel ‘09 and her campaign staff—not including her chronically absent running mate Leo P. Zimmermann ’09—were also present to congratulate their opponents. The two tickets had previously agreed to combine their celebrations. Martel expressed candid disappointment that her ticket captured less than 8 percent of the electorate, taking a third place finish...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, Nathan C. Strauss, and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Sunkist, Falafel Ring in UC Victory | 12/10/2007 | See Source »

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