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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Saturday, the Crimson posted respectable showings in three different races. In the days womens interclub qualifiers, sophomore Caroline Dixon finished in sixth place with 59 points over 10 races...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Enjoys Taste of Success | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...raising outside Florida easier, is being tagged by so many as a liability inside the state. So far she polls better against Bush than the half a dozen other Democratic hopefuls. However, the President's younger brother thumped her 54% to 39% in a recent survey by the Mason-Dixon firm, with only 7% undecided. Reno enjoys a reputation as a principled leader who does what she thinks is right. But at the same time she bears the image of an arrogant prosecutor who often made wrong or inept moves in cases like Waco and Elian. "The Republicans will absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble With Reno | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...even though Roth gets all the credit for being funny, Pynchon is funnier, finding the joke in much harder places than doing an American Pie with a piece of liver. In Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist: The Case For Thomas Pynchon | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...David Dixon, the principal consultant for Goody-Clancy, warns that the proposal may change drastically by the end of the process...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's New Frontier | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

Overseer C. Dixon Spangler Jr., who was present at the meeting, described Summers’ presentation as “well thought...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Presidential Search | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

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