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...During the break, I started thinking about figure skating, where, at the time, Kwan, the Russian Irina Slutskaya, American Sasha Cohen and Hughes stood one through four. Too bad, I mused, that the kids can't jump up in the standings if they really crank one tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Pulled a Bode | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...yesterday morning I started thinking about figure skating, where, at the time, Kwan, the Russian Irina Slutskaya, American Sasha Cohen and Hughes stood one through four. Too bad, I mused, that the kids can't jump up in the standings if they really crank one tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Sarah Hughes | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...Rumsfeld and plead for the drones to help gather intelligence in their part of the world. "There simply are not enough to go around," Rumsfeld said. "We're building them as rapidly as possible." But the Predator's manufacturer, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, tells TIME it is ready to crank out more than the two a month called for in the 2003 budget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons Of Afghanistan | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...then the rest - Pervez Musharraf, Bono, the pope, Lance Armstrong, Al Gore for disappearing gracefully, and the inevitable parade of crank candidates who are about as interesting as the dimwits who proposed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Readers' Choice | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...over the summer when there were no concrete due dates—I would write a paragraph, obsess over revising it and making it perfect, then I would go watch TV or something. When I know I need a story done in a couple days, I’ll crank it out in a few sittings and not worry so much about perfecting every sentence. If I’m feeling uninspired, reading some published stories (by other authors) usually helps. I look at what kind of voice an author is using, what kind of structure the story...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Creative English Theses, Part II | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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