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...foul situation bordered on absurd, with the referees calling 50 fouls during the game (20 on Harvard in the second half alone), including a technical on Brown coach Glen Miller...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Title Hopes Fade as M. Basketball Loses to Yale and Brown | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell Me A New Story | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Ryan's marriage to Dennis Quaid was "D.O.A.," though she rebounded quickly and "Got Male" with Russell Crowe. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger made the mistake of starring in The Marrying Man. Oh, my! Still, no previous celebrity breakup has provided such absurd opportunities for media punning as the demise of Tom and Nicole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 19, 2001 | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...they say Fineberg is so ethical and so circumspect that the allegations he is campaigning for the presidency are absurd...

Author: By Joshua E. Gewolb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Fineberg, Success May Be A Liability | 2/15/2001 | See Source »

...even finish Cliffs Notes. At age 49, she went on medication for ADHD. In the five years since, she has read more books than she had ever done before. Eventually, Clover told her friends about her disorder. She had kept it a secret, she says, afraid it sounded absurd: a grown woman with an attention-deficit problem. Imagine that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ritalin: Mom's Little Helper | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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