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...argument over five dollars at her friend's residence on Harvard Street. The suspect attacked the reporting person, pulling out her hair, biting her index finger and punching her on the right cheek. The victim said that another unknown individual showed up at her house to sell crack...

Author: By Elise E. Chahla and Rajae Merzoug, S | Title: Police Log | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...talking about the birth of their twin daughters - we've just seen George in his shaggy '80s hairdo holding them - and he starts reminiscing. "It seems like just yesterday we were at the hospital," and he gets lost in the phrasing, "uh, uh... havin' birth..." And he and Laura crack up. This is a blooper. Al Gore, you think, would have cut and rolled take two. But what does Dubya care? He and Laura laugh each other goofy. I couldn't even think of the words for havin' a baby! "I like to laugh," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Boy Makes Good — But Not Goody-Good | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

Even if I don't catch something spicy, anticipation keeps me hooked. Every time someone starts digging around in a dresser drawer or whispering in someone else's ear, I wonder what juicy tidbit I'll discover. I want to know what makes each person tick, which one will crack first and who will say nasty things behind someone else's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'm a Web Zombie | 7/31/2000 | See Source »

...stupid math I get paid to do, we eat lunch, joke around, talk about college and life in general. While I admit this might not really be educational per se, it's also undeniable that the time they spend with me is time that they're not smoking crack or watching Pokmon re-runs. I feel like I'm being a good role model...or something like that...

Author: By David C. Newman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Points For Sale | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

...course, the Democrat who made that crack in the first paragraph will snort at the idea of George W. Bush - scion of old WASPs, Galahad of tort reform, living fat on Texas oil money and "presiding" now and then over lethal injections - as a hero of the anti-elitist masses. But that will be the Democrat's mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Presidential Transformation | 7/28/2000 | See Source »

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