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...definitely fun looking at the different ways people try to approach her," Natalie Linos '03 explains. "Some are really blunt about it, and others try to be extremely discrete, asking about chemistry and so forth." Portman, the "Harvard student," has expressed an academic interest in the sciences...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Natalie's Here, There, and Everywhere... | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...momentum has changed so much since last fall that even Gore's gimmicks are working. Gore himself came up with the idea of having a real farmer guest-star at the Iowa debate. And his campaign decided that the best way to blunt Bradley's criticisms of him as an Establishment politician was to extend a hand to Bradley on national TV and challenge him to quit advertising and debate more instead. "A ploy," Bradley said disdainfully, and the pundits agreed. But at a time when television in Iowa and New Hampshire has become a wearying loop of campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind The Gore Punch | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...Dorthy heard dogs barking and a commotion outside. Martha's body was found at noon the next day under a tree in the Moxley yard. She lay in a 3-ft. pool of blood; her head had been bludgeoned some 14 times with a blunt instrument, and the sharp, broken shaft of that instrument, a Toney Penna 6-iron golf club, had been driven into her throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Crime In The Clan | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...manner of his leaving the presidency was vintage Yeltsin--bold, blunt, even defiant, but rooted in his core belief in the right and the ability of the Russian people to choose their own leaders and their own course for the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Yeltsin | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...civilians has been devastating, but Moscow seems not to care. One of Yermolov's tactics was to destroy any village whose inhabitants resisted, as an example. General Troshev, commanding the eastern sector, takes the same approach. No one knows how many civilians have died, especially in Grozny where the blunt force of artillery, aircraft and missile batteries has been indiscriminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Lessons | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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