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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when Penn scored five straight down the stretch, and Drew Housman missed a tough potential game-tying three-pointer with five seconds left, that confidence turned to dismay, knowing that the streak of futility would go on. The saving grace was that the Crimson would get another shot at breaking another streak the next night at Princeton...

Author: By Kevin C. Reyes, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE REYES REVIEW: Harvard Down, But Not Yet Out | 2/8/2008 | See Source »

...strong smell of alcohol" emanating from him. The BC rejected the claim that Kinnock had been drunk, and protested the harassment. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Miliband also accused Russia of "completely unacceptable" behavior. In a statement to MPs in the House of Commons on Thursday, Miliband expressed "anger and dismay" at Russia's actions adding: "We saw similar actions during the Cold War but frankly thought they had been put behind us ... Russia's actions against the British Council are a stain on Russian's reputation and standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UK-Russian Tension Growing | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...other dull, disastrous, detail-oriented Democratic politicians of the recent past had haunted her campaign from the start. Earlier that day she had even attacked Obama using Mondale's famous line about Gary Hart, "Where's the beef?" But now she seemed to be shedding her private dismay that she could never be a charismatic politician like Obama or Kennedy, or her husband, and embracing her inner Johnson?at least the can-do policy-wonk version of that notoriously strange President. But she would be Johnson with a twist, with passion and with a specific constituency in mind: all those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hillary Learned to Trust Herself | 1/10/2008 | See Source »

...other dull, disastrous, detail-oriented Democratic politicians of the recent past had haunted her campaign from the start. Earlier that day she had even attacked Obama using Mondale's famous line about Gary Hart, "Where's the beef?" But now she seemed to be shedding her private dismay that she could never be a charismatic politician like Obama or Kennedy, or her husband, and embracing her inner Johnson - at least the can-do policy-wonk version of that notoriously strange President. But she would be Johnson with a twist, with passion and with a specific constituency in mind: all those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Hillary Learned to Trust Herself | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...whose solid, steadfast campaign earned the respect of many Iowans, but anti restoration, anti the notion of having a former two-term President elide the Constitution by returning to the White House as a spouse, anti the petty, contentious politics that seems to follow the Clintons - much to their dismay - everywhere they go. (Except, perhaps, the corridors of the Senate, which may ultimately prove to be Senator Clinton's most natural home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Historic Victory | 1/4/2008 | See Source »

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