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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...quickly devour my lunch at my desk. Very few people here have the time to take an actual lunch break...

Author: By Shannon E. Flynn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Goldman Sachs Girl | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...explicate his marriage, he weaves together two threads: "Bible and brain." God blessed them with five children in eight years of marriage. A big family, Rusty says, was going to be their "adventure in life." But, he explains, "the Bible says the devil prowls around looking for someone to devour. I look at Andrea, and I think that Andrea was weak"--not morally weak but chemically weak, her resistance to evil lowered by mental illness. "Think about a field of deer, and there's one limping around, and that's kind of the way I see it. Andrea was weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Yates Odyssey | 7/26/2006 | See Source »

...Wilson legal team, is confident: "The evidence is clear that the defendants abused their power." The case could be put on hold until after Libby's prosecution for perjury in connection with the case. In any event, it's likely to cost the defendants thousands in legal fees--and devour energies at the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Sued Me | 7/18/2006 | See Source »

...years," he tells TIME. "Nothing in this book will in any way help those who have destructive intent and violent desires." Beyond the subway-gas plot, there are other disturbing revelations in Suskind's book that will serve as fodder for terror analysts and pundits to debate, and devour, in coming days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Misdirected War on Terror? | 6/20/2006 | See Source »

Seattle coach Bill Resler calls his Roosevelt High girls' basketball team a "pride of lions." Which sounds simple and uplifting until he explains that in the jungle, female lions leave the males and go prowling to "kill and devour" their foe. His offensive strategy: he has none, instead establishing a pressing defense that exhausts the opponent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Hot New Crop of Docs | 6/19/2006 | See Source »

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