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...last time Harvard played at Cornell in the playoffs, the fans supposedly did not bother to wait until game-day to waylay the Crimson. Somehow, the numbers of the team's hotel rooms in Ithaca entered public domain, and of course, the team was crank-called all night long...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lynah House of Horrors | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...issue is the best ever I havenit slept for forty six hours straight you know what Iim saying if you know what I mean you know a drink is money when you cant stop shaking man I havenit had such a good time since the last time I did crank at the spee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: From Our BULGING Mail Bags | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...lose something when performed online. (No, I'm not going to talk about sex.) Consider hiking. True, you could don your head-mounted display and get on your treadmill while a friend did the same in another city. If you wanted a whiff of pine or cedar, you could crank up the computer-controlled aroma synthesizer that the company DigiScents has said it will market. Not too tempting, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Ever Log Off? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...became a multimillionaire from selling a snake oil called Argyrol. He bought a huge collection--175 Renoirs, 66 Cezannes, 65 Matisses--and built a foundation around them, but Philadelphia still remembers him mainly as a geek and a bully, and his theories about art as the honkings of a crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Livable Treasure-House | 1/1/2000 | See Source »

...volatile chemicals in Ressam's trunk into bombs. The chemistry alone could take a couple of days; the assembly process would have been tricky as well. Ressam's chosen crossing point seemed amateurish: he would stand out among the sparse travelers. And though he could be a lone crank with a totally fanciful notion of what it takes to perpetrate mayhem, if he is not, it means several other people have to be in on the plot. "It's a multiheaded monster," says a French official, adding, "There are probably other Ressams out there right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Year's Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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