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...majority may determine how our Constitution is interpreted for 30 or 40 years," Gore said, noting the next President might appoint as many as four judges to the bench...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gore: Bush's Tax Cut an Economic 'Illusion' | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

...title character of this one-character play--an 80-year-old Jewish woman who tells the story of her life, from a Ukrainian shtetl to Warsaw during the Nazi years and at last to Miami Beach--Olympia Dukakis gives a magnificent performance. Sitting on a bench in a dimly lighted apartment, hands planted on her knees, she is warm and true, funny but free of shtick, and less maudlin than one might expect. So long as you accept that this rather too calculated monologue is occupying a Broadway stage where real plays used to roam, it's a moving evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rose | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...tenured at Harvard," said Lowell house math concentrator Sameer Satija '01. True. "He has the best endgame in the world," said Pranav Anand '01, another Lowell math concentrator. Nope. "But he did lose to the A.B.P. chess master," Anand added. That part's true. "I've heard he can bench about 300 pounds," Heidi K. Kim '01 said. Maybe, but he'll never admit it. Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies is something of a Harvard living legend, though he doesn't really understand...

Author: By Tom Castillo, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Gnoshin' with Noam | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

Finally, with a powerful block by Denham and Pankau, Harvard won the fifth game, 19-17, and the match, 3-2. The bench exploded and the Crimson players celebrated their first major playoff game since...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Redemption: M. Volleyball Advances in EIVA Playoffs | 4/20/2000 | See Source »

...number, but it's more efficient just to toss your junk mail. The notion that anyone will ever find you interesting enough to look up your personal Census data or read your e-mails is so egotistical that I know you're dying to answer personal questions. I can bench-press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take My Privacy, Please | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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