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...island's status?and galvanize nationalist sentiment?in the lead-up to the presidential election next year. David Lampton, professor of China studies at Johns Hopkins University, told the Associated Press that Bush felt it was time to make clear to Chen that he "did not have a blank check to be filled out in American blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stuck in the middle | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...Play: The READER asks each WRITER to call out a word—an adjective or a noun or an overused journalistic cliché or whatever the space calls for—and uses them to fill in the blank places in the story. The result is an FM Mad Libs game...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FM's Mad Libs | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

...kicked away Voce’s point-blank power-play bid with seven-and-a-half minutes left in the game—one of 11 more dandies in the third—to keep his team in it until...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: M. Hockey Outshot, Outgunned | 12/11/2003 | See Source »

Attempts at creative writing involve many time-honored traditions: staring at blank sheets of paper (blank virtual sheets of paper, these days); typing out a few tentative words, only to cringe and toss them away; getting angry at people who read the final draft and don’t sense all the brilliant, subtly wrought miracles of language. Ever since that conversation with my blockmate, though, I’ve begun to notice another quality of the writing process that I hadn’t really considered: unabashed navel-gazing...

Author: By Catherine L. Tung, | Title: The Trouble Of Self-Study | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...only goal came when Cornell was on the man-advantage, playing up because junior center Brendan Bernakevitch had been whistled off for interference 4:48 into the third. The Big Red wasted little time, converting 21 seconds into the power play when a hard shot from point-blank range off the stick of Shane Hynes found its way past both the confusion in front of the crease and Grumet-Morris, sliding into the back of the net and giving Cornell a 1-0 lead...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: WASHED OUT | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

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