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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Club, I was not a good writer. I was a year and a half out of the group home. So I had to figure out ways to make myself indispensable. I would do things that were insane; I had a lot of chutzpah. I started a series called "Critical Beatdown," where I would ask people insulting questions. People really liked it, but it was discontinued because I just couldn't keep mustering up the courage to call up somebody and say: "You suck, and here's a list of reasons why you suck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Onion's Nathan Rabin | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...we’ve played Boston,” says Brian Thompson of the Connecticut band Dead Uncles, whose Friday set got the crowd slam dancing and moshing with enthusiasm. But this wasn’t the brutal, violent moshing featured on the notorious DVD “Boston Beatdown,” which focused on a different hardcore scene that many on RH deride as “bro-core.” RH comper Jacob N. Augenstern ’10 spent the set moshing with and leaping on a local punk rocker, but afterwards, the two patted...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hardcore Harvard | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...then on Saturday, against Columbia—the team I called the clear No.2 last week—it wasn’t even close, as Princeton held the Lions to 11 points, yes 11 points in the first half en route to a 63-35 beatdown...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ancient Eight in State of Disarray | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...recently turned in his badge as the series began its endgame.) That would not be interesting for long if it weren't for the fact that Mackey was also a very good cop. He nails criminals other police couldn't get--albeit using shady deals and the occasional beatdown with a steel chain. He's a shameless racist, yet he lives to take down crooks who prey on one of L.A.'s poorest and brownest neighborhoods. He's a brutal thug and a loving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fitting End for The Shield | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...have the wind at his back, Obama must find a way to reassure the worriers in his party that he's got what it takes to win. One way to do that is to elegantly balance the convention rhetoric between a shower of love for Obama and a rhetorical beatdown of John McCain. Many Democrats believe that the party's 2004 convention spent far too much time defining John Kerry and too little taking whacks at the incumbent he was trying to beat. A well-executed four-day extravaganza that sends Obama back on to the trail with a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Convention To-Do List | 8/23/2008 | See Source »

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