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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mayweather is one of the smartest boxers around. "He is brilliant at draining the drama from a fight, but he also wins," says Larry Merchant, the HBO boxing analyst. By making a request that he expected Pacquiao to turn down, he may have proven that he is just as good a tactician outside the ring as in it. Or as Pacquiao enthusiasts may add, Mayweather is good at getting out of the ring as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Bad Blood Scuttle the Pacquiao-Mayweather Fight? | 12/23/2009 | See Source »

Michael Jackson kept his most stunning performance for the very end. Always able to command an audience, he knew how to bring whole arenas to fits of exultation with his moves and then silence them to the point of tears with his poetry. He was brilliant, excessive, maudlin, tacky and possibly criminal, but you could never ignore him. So it was fitting that in death, he momentarily silenced the largest arena humanity has ever known, the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fond Farewells: Paying Tribute to Notable People Who Died in 2009 | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Just one question. Why should anybody be perplexed about Mara Carfagna's participation in Italian political life? She was a model and now she is a brilliant minister. After all, nobody complained about Sarah Palin or Yulia Tymoshenko who are both famously beautiful, have gone into politics and have done a great job, just like Mara Carfagna. Max Annati, MILAN, ITALY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlusconi's Success | 12/21/2009 | See Source »

...always a brilliant graduate student,” says Rutgers Professor of English Carolyn Williams, who was on Kaiser’s dissertation committee...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaiser’s Class All About Sex | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...smartest person in my English class, by far." wrote another user. "I sat next to you sometimes, but never said a word to you. Your brilliant comments and the way your hair falls across your forehead are what got me through the semester...

Author: By Barbara B. Depena, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Love Connections | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

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