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...Brotemarkle took the first defeat despite striking out nine in six innings. She said Penn took both games without hitting the ball hard...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Softball Strikes Back, Takes Two From League Champion Princeton | 4/29/2003 | See Source »

Consumers are buying gadgets with names like Phone Butler and TeleZapper to help keep unwanted salespeople at bay. But the callers keep developing new technologies to defeat the gadgets. Federal and state legislators are passing laws to tighten regulation of telemarketers. President Bush recently signed a bill authorizing the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to create a national do-not-call registry, which anyone can sign up for online beginning July 1 and by phone soon thereafter. Eventually the list will be merged with similar lists maintained by 30 states--a chore that may take up to two years. Companies must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Calling Us | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...Japanese clients who were very interested in buying anything from the plundered museums and wanting to know if the dealer had access to such booty. "I couldn't believe it," the dealer says. "The war was barely over, and this vulture was trying to profit from our defeat. I called him a pimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad's Treasure: Lost To The Ages | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...easy to defeat an incumbent President under the best of circumstances, and the Democrats have cause to worry. This particular model Bush is a deft politician with big ideas and with the guts to take risks that can yield great victories. He is also one brazen dude: he traveled last week to Missouri and came very close to using the V word--victory--even though most of Saddam Hussein's inner circle had effectively disappeared and even though no weapons of mass destruction had yet been found and even though U.S.-controlled Iraq remained a chaotic mess (and even though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Make The Victory Stick | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

Harvard neither led nor trailed by more than one the entire way and, with 1:15 remaining, was on the verge of defeat...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Host W. Water Polo Grabs Sixth Place in Tough Easterns Field | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

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