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...stern face of president Daniel arap Moi has stared out at Kenyans for more than 24 years. Framed on office and shop walls, pictured on every banknote and coin and ubiquitous on the nightly news, the steely gaze hints at his rule: paternal, omnipotent and tough. Don't question the chief, the stare seems to say, because I'm everywhere. But Moi, 78, is constitutionally obliged to step down at the upcoming presidential and parliamentary election on Dec. 27, and his country is more than ready for the change. In the past few years of economic decline and rampant corruption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet the New Boss | 12/8/2002 | See Source »

...most memorable pick-up line a guy has ever tried on you: “If I flip a coin, what are my chances of getting head...

Author: By E.f.m. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scoped! | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

What's 18 ft. wide, fully automated and open 24 hours a day? Despite its name (which already seems a little out of date), the Shop 2000 is the cutting edge of robotic retail: a vending machine with the inventory of a minimart. The coin-and credit-card-operated vendor carries up to 200 items, from olive oil to computer discs to sandwiches to toothpaste (storing the perishables at a frosty 35°F). There's no smile with your service, but you do get the fun of watching a robotic arm grab your purchase. With convenience stores reporting a shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shops'N'Bots | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...point where you could see Tim Murphy sitting on the sidelines plucking daffodil petals and flipping a coin between series. Against Princeton two weeks ago, he seemed to switch quarterbacks on every down. Eeeny-meeny-miney-mo, catch the Tigers by the toe. Rose or Fitzpatrick? Fitzpatrick or Rose...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: QB or Not QB: That is the Question | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...think they’re using words to communicate, so I come in with straight goon and girls don’t know what to do. These guys try to be smooth. I just come to New York and drop goon. And it works, bro.” We coin various expressions for PK-1’s courting: “Tossin’ goon…coughin’ goon…flingin’ goon...

Author: By Jacob Rubin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adventures in Enthusiastic Idiocy | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

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