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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...several decades. There are sure of their own abilities and incredibly proud of the soldiers they lead. When asked about what they expect in a fight with the Iraqi army they are, to a man, certain that they can annihilate anything thrown at them. This is not a boast. It is a certainty that comes after thousands of hours in training that is, in many ways, more demanding then actual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Commanders Think | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

Move over, Gallo. The title of world's largest vintner will soon go to Constellation Brands, whose Canandaigua Wine subsidiary was featured on our cover in October. Constellation is swallowing Australia's largest vintner, BRL Hardy, to form a global giant that will boast $1.7 billion in annual wine sales. Based in Fairport, N.Y., Constellation already owns such mass-market wines as Almaden and Inglenook and was running a joint venture with BRL before deciding to buy it for $1.4 billion. "There is no Coca-Cola, Microsoft or Nestle of the winemaking world," says BRL managing director Stephen Millar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Feb. 24, 2003 | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

While Northeastern doesn’t boast a squad as powerful as the Hockey East powers, the Huskies were the most talented team the freshman has faced in his young collegiate career...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper and Samita A. Mannaperuma, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Nice for Weiss | 2/11/2003 | See Source »

...favorite for bouts of booty shaking to the best local and visiting DJs. Just down the street is the painfully hip Bed Supperclub, (662) 252 3274, where you can recline like a pasha on sprawling white sofas, with the added benefit of being able to boast to your friends about the beautiful people you were in Bed with last night. On the other side of Sukhumvit is British export Ministry of Sound, (662) 229 5850, where a regular procession of superstar international DJs and gaggles of glam young Thais keep the house rocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hot Spots | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...Tigers boast the most imposing top five in the country, with freshman sensation and intercollegiate No. 1 Yasser El-Halaby supported by seniors Will Evans, David Yik, Dan Rutherford and Eric Pearson, who comprise arguably the greatest class in Princeton history. The quintet won the US Squash Racquets Association five-man team championship earlier this year, while Evans was the 2002 intercollegiate runner-up and Yik the 2001 intercollegiate champion...

Author: By Robert C. Boutwell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Squash Splits Penn/Princeton Road Trip | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

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