Word: bittersweets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...brought him brown-bag lunches throughout the seven-week trial, thanked the Lord. Combs' friend and sometime bodyguard, Anthony (Wolf) Jones, was also exonerated, while Combs' rapper protege, Jamaal (Shyne) Barrow, was convicted of assault charges and could face up to 25 years in prison. "It's bittersweet," Combs said of the verdict. "My heart goes out to everybody who was hurt by this...
...best wrestling seasons in Harvard sports history came to an end over the weekend during the NCAA Championships at the University of Iowa. While the 2000-01 wrestling season will long be remembered for the successful steps of Crimson wrestling program, the ending was bittersweet as Harvard stumbled to the finish, pulling up short against a tough NCAA tournament field...
...Despite all this, the other two business angels came through with $5.6 million, enough for Matchbid to operate until it breaks even. The firm expects sales of $24 million this year, and things are looking up. For Dicke, the outcome is bittersweet. "It was difficult to explain that Richard left," he says. "We were very close." He still has faith in the New Economy, even if his former partner and father...
Sophomore center Dominic Moore's stunning tally shortly into overtime nudged the Crimson's overall record above the .500 mark and sent the five members of the senior class off with a bittersweet victory...
...Ryder and gang dancing to "My Sharona" in the gas-station convenience store (Reality Bites); John Cusack holding up the boombox (of course); Michelle Pfeiffer singing "Making Whoopee" on the piano; seasons changing as Hugh Grant walks down the Portobello Road to "Ain't No Sunshine" (Notting Hill); the bittersweet use of "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of "I Love the Nightlife" in Last Days of Disco; Abba songs punctuating Muriel's Wedding; that inimitable discussion of "Like a Virgin" in Reservoir Dogs; "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the background...