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3. "David Boring," by Daniel Clowes Sharing similar themes with "Jimmy Corrigan," "David Boring" features a young man with a vanished father and a clinging mother. But its grayish-blue palette and more conventional layout give it an air of grim seriousness against which take place completely absurd events. (At...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Comics 2000 | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

Aysan Celik's Antigone, on the other hand, captures the ambiguities and changing motives that Sophocles built into her role. At the beginning of the play, she trespasses Creon's decree with an eye to glorious martyrdom, only to become hideously frightened once her execution is inevitable. Thompson's Creon...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bringing Out the Dead | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

With Harvard clinging to a 1-0 lead late in the second half, Hawks midfielder Sandra Kayulu was called for a hand-ball in the box, setting up a penalty kick for senior midfielder Meredith Stewart, who found the back of the net to give Harvard a two-goal advantage...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Stuns Hartford in NCAAs, Advances to Sweet 16 | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

If she couldn't, it might have been because of the cardboard ballots used in the disputed counties. The machines that tabulate the punch cards often invalidate ballots in which voters have not cleanly broken through the perforated hole. A bit of cardboard chaff clinging to the puncture, officially known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Eye of the Storm | 11/12/2000 | See Source »

Inside the crawl space, Brennan also found dryer lint clinging to the walls. "There's a lot of moisture dumping in here from the dryer too," he says. "And we've got some rodent poop by these holes around this ventilation duct." Mice can pass through a 3/8-in. hole, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Mold Busters | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

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