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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...governing committee cannot yet boast a perfect record...

Author: By Sarah A. Dolgonos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: IOP Stable Despite Structural Changes | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

...addition to Caramanico, the Quakers also boast two other players, Erin Ladley and Julie Epton, who are averaging double-digit scoring. The Crimson will need to play solid defense and control the boards...

Author: By Kathryn J. Hodel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Hoops Faces Tall Order Against Princeton, Penn This Weekend | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

...unlike Robert Philip Hanssen, the alleged spy whose double life surely required even greater measures of deception, he wasn't a two-faced hypocrite. He didn't boast about being moral or a family man or that he was particularly loyal. What's so infuriating about Hanssen - apart, of course, from the simple fact that he was a traitor - is the fact that he was so sanctimonious about his patriotism, his faith and his family. Spying was his other family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Only Thing Worse Than a Spy: A Spy Who's a Hypocrite | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

Such a high caliber victory also significantly boosts the Crimson's chances of entering the NCAA tournament, since not many teams can boast of defeating the top-ranked team in the nation...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boyz II Ji-men-ez: W. Hockey Returns to Greatness | 2/20/2001 | See Source »

...bashing lyrics, but without excusing him, it's hard to say that he makes himself look good delivering the message. In his most violent songs, like Kim, he comes off as an unbalanced, whiny creep brutalizing women (his wife, his mother) out of weakness. He can barely issue a boast ("Shady will f___in' kill you") without undermining it with a pathetic image ("I'm like a mummy at night.../Frightened with five little white Vicodin pills bitin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rude Boys | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

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