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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Suppiah was referring to the eight-year-long court battle waged against his family's restaurant by McDonald's - a classic David-and-Goliath scenario that ended this week in defeat for the U.S. corporation. Malaysia's highest court ruled on Tuesday that McDonald's proprietary claim over the prefix Mc did not apply to McCurry because it sells only Indian food that has no connection with the American-style fast food that McDonald's sells in its 137 outlets throughout the country. For the past eight years, the Suppiahs have maintained that their restaurant's Mc prefix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCurry: the Indian Eatery That Beat McDonald's | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

...Yale—We're not saying they beat us, but how could they not crack the top 25?  This is the school that produced the Bushes, the Clintons, Kerry, etc.  Also, have you ever seen "The Skulls?" Classic bad-but-good movie, plenty of douchebaggery...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: It Takes One To Know One: Reviewing GQ's "Douchiest College" List | 9/6/2009 | See Source »

...Yale—We're not saying they beat us, but how could they not crack the top 25?  This is the school that produced the Bushes, the Clintons, Kerry, etc.  Also, have you ever seen "The Skulls?" Classic bad-but-good movie, plenty of douchebaggery...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child | Title: It Takes One To Know One: Reviewing GQ's "Douchiest College" List | 9/5/2009 | See Source »

...playing the cello involves really beautiful movement, and I really wanted to make sure it wasn’t missed.There is another piece I originally choreographed to recorded music but I’ve always wanted to do it live because I’ve been enamored of the classical guitar for a while. There’s a very human element to having live music that I think gives a dance piece something more when you have the musician present. I’m a really musically- driven choreographer, so I’m trying to do everything...

Author: By Denise J. Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: LARISSA D. KOCH ’08-’09 | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...Tully, a fighter who retired when a change in luck robbed him of his wife and his will, finds his taste for the sport revived—if briefly—after sparring with recreational boxer Ernie Munger, only a teenager when Tully encourages him to turn pro. The classic boxing arc would pit these two against one another in the final act—vitality supplanting experience, in expectedly American fashion—but as Munger emerges as the novel’s other main protagonist, the two barely meet one another again.What at first appears...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Frontiers of American Tragedy | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

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