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...pair of Florida State University administrators, Perry Crowell and Larry Conrad. It's pretty crude, Crowell admits, and because it was written before the explosion in users, traffic and e-mail viruses, it seems almost naive. "If we were to update it today, we might very well declare defeat," says Crowell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12 Steps for E-Mail Addicts | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

Whether or not Graham’s guess was on target, the Crimson would escape with neither. Even with Crockett on the mound, the Washington Huskies rode a two-out, four-run rally in the fourth inning to defeat the Crimson, 4-2, in the second game of the NCAA Regional Playoffs in front of 2,062 at Rice’s Reckling Park...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Baseball Eliminated from NCAAs | 6/1/2002 | See Source »

...Taliban leader Mullah Omar--are among them. Last week a London-based Arab newspaper carried a purported interview with Omar in which he claimed that bin Laden is alive, warned that "we don't consider the battle has ended" and vowed to bring "fire and hell and total defeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Safe Now? | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...brute strength. Brazilian jiujitsu is a form of self-defense that takes place almost entirely on the ground. Fighters use snakelike grappling moves to choke their opponent, or, with the weight of their entire body, they press against key joints, bringing them close to a breaking point. Losers acknowledge defeat simply by tapping their fingers on the ground as if to say "Enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Martial Arts, Brazilian-Style | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

...Dostum truly has evolved, there's no doubt a strong element of realpolitik behind the transformation. Since the defeat of the Taliban, Dostum has reasserted control over his home turf, the ethnically Uzbek and Turkmen provinces of Jowzjan and Faryab. But the onetime master of the north now finds his position challenged by the growing power of his erstwhile ally in the Northern Alliance, the mainly Tajik Jamiat-i-Islami faction. Jamiat's ascension has prompted an unlikely alignment between Dostum and Hamid Karzai, the patrician Pashtun tribal leader who heads Kabul's interim government. In December Karzai appointed Dostum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Makeover For A Warlord | 5/27/2002 | See Source »

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