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...muskie is the Boo Radley of American game fish, an elusive hulk in the shadows - a beautiful, green, striped but spooky fellow, big, fun to catch, and hard to find. Elephant Lake muskie, according to one fishing writer, are "aggressive and fearless." Trolling there is a Catch-22: 1) The muskie keeps mostly to the weeds; therefore 2) you must fish in the weeds to catch him, but 3) as soon as you enter the weeds, your hooks gather a harvest of vegetables; your lure stops dancing, stops appealing to a muskie as an item to gobble, and resembles, instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reeling in the Big Ones on Elephant Lake | 8/23/2001 | See Source »

...Minnesota has always had plenty of finger waggers to remind you that all that money spent to repair that fat man's aorta could have bought nourishing breakfasts for X number of orphans. But Doc Lillehei was surrounded with innocent kids with congenital heart defects, and nobody said boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Just Needed A Valve Job | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...this year he dropped the modest, underdog thing. Even the victim stuff had expired: despite unveiling his wobbly French, he was booed by the French on the eve of the race for kicking a Frenchman off his team--though, really, what wouldn't the French boo if it's in their country and isn't French? Then, like a true American, he went on to posterize--just like Jordan did to Ewing--Jan Ullrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Lance in France | 8/6/2001 | See Source »

...feel of a garage-band single with the frenetic kinesis of a music video. The film updates the comic of the same name, tracking grrl-band Josie and the Pussycats as they get caught up in success. The movie’s main target of attack is mass consumerism (boo Abercrombie!), but it also gets in smart jibes on boybands (the show’s spoof boyband, Du Jour, has a hit single named “Backdoor Lover”), “Behind the Music” and other aspects of ’00s pop culture. It?...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MEOW! | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...future, "neutral" fans might not wait until the final game of the season to boo lustily at the referees while wondering why all the calls seem to go Duke...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whoopty-Duke: Partial Refs Taint Glorious Run | 4/3/2001 | See Source »

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