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Evans recalls meeting West playing pool, andeven in that setting West would "crack jokes"about Marx, Hegel or Kierkegaard...

Author: By Cornel West, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: West Returns to Harvard, Joins Afro-Am Dream Team | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson, which placed fifth at the EARC Sprints with a time of 5:50.28, could not crack into the upper echelon of heavyweight crews...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. L. Crew Wins National Championship to Highlight Crew Season | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

...home and protect Serbian borders instead of depopulating Kosovo. Had a relatively small ground force been deployed by now, it could have made the air war more lethal by spotting targets and flushing Serbian armor from hiding. But now the noisy, public ground-troops debates seem more likely to crack apart NATO than to cow Milosevic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounded In Kosovo | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...Abraham, looked flat, round, unflinching, uncomprehending, accusing. I backed down. My mother took the knife and stabbed the fish in the lower back. She had obviously never killed a fish before either, for she would have known to club, not stab, it. I couldn't tell if the resulting "crack" was that of the scales breaking or that of the tip of the knife embedding itself through "Freddie" into the cutting board. I screamed. My sister cried. My mother cursed. We felt so guilty. We avoided fish for weeks and started with fish sticks when we phased into our diets...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: The Personal Touch | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

NATO may be bombing Belgrade back to the Stone Age and some Yugoslavian troops are feeling mutinous, but alliance predictions that President Milosevic is about to crack are probably premature. Belgrade's water reserves dropped to 8 percent Tuesday as NATO kept up its bombing campaign, and the city's residents are having to become accustomed to life without electricity. "Life in Serbian cities is getting very difficult," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic, "but people are not blaming Milosevic; they're blaming NATO. And even if they did blame Milosevic, there's not much they can do about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Army Mutinies, Milosevic Hangs Tough | 5/25/1999 | See Source »

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