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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...athletics have toughened me up. From the overt physicality of sport, one eventually adopts the ability to suck it up and deal. Sports are often unpleasant. From the despised suicide sprints at the end of an exhausting basketball practice to the disagreeable predicament of playing 18 holes in a downpour, sports have forced me to perform physical tasks that I so completely did not want...

Author: By Maureen B. Shannon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Moe Money, Moe Problems: Bidding Adieu | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...provides the friction. "Binny's not boyfriend material," declares the two-timing Debs. Typical of Watson's style, Binny may not, in fact, be boyfriend material. He's got no job, mooches off friends, and fills his life with other people's cast-offs. Eventually a dramatic English downpour brings things to head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix About Real World Problems | 5/7/2002 | See Source »

With the Crimson trailing by 10-2 midway through the sixth inning of Tuesday’s series finale with Brown, a downpour of rain threatened to end the game prematurely and give the Bears a one-game lead heading into the weekend...

Author: By Timothy Jackon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Division Title at Stake for Baseball v. Big Green | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

What began as a trickle turned into a flood as the BC Eagles unleashed an offensive downpour against the Harvard softball team...

Author: By Renzo Weber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Softball Gets Shut Out By Crosstown Eagles | 4/26/2002 | See Source »

...dozen pitched along Rafah's main street. It has been his home since last month, when Israeli troops bulldozed his house in Block O, the section of the refugee camp next to Termite. With a rake, Najjar gathers cigarette butts and candy wrappers swept into the tent by the downpour of the past few hours. "It's cold in here, isn't it?" he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Hurricane | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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