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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Thus, at a time when I should be consumed with acquiring the wit of Maureen Dowd, the political-savvy of Mary Matlin and the resiliency of Hillary, I instead find myself preoccupied with answering the pop-culture queries of Carrie Bradshaw. When my thoughts drift to interviews inevitably I am left with but one damning interrogatory gnawing at my brain: Despite strides in gender equality is it really true that what’s below a woman’s waist is still more important that what’s coming out of her mouth...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Well Suited for the Job | 11/7/2001 | See Source »

...truly effective airport security, says Gritta, is eliminating the human factor altogether. No matter how well trained or well-paid you are, if you?re sitting at a scanning station for more than an hour at a time, you?re probably going to drift off occasionally. "But if there?s a way to automate the whole process, with fingerprint recognition techniques or highly sophisticated scanners," says Gritta, "we?d be a lot better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The O'Hare Breach: Stopping Security Lapses | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...however, have carved out a new mold for themselves as Instant Gratification Machines of sorts, anticipating and catering to the public’s wants. And, until very recently, these two areas of the industry, the small-scale specialized press and the large-scale mainstream press, seemed destined to drift further apart...

Author: By Emma Firestone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Reading Up on September 11th | 11/2/2001 | See Source »

...plate with runners on first and second in the bottom of the seventh, Alan D. Camp ’04 hit into a textbook 6-4-3 double play, if you get my drift...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gossip Guy! | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

...Lugar may have to make due with its pre-attack allotment, the grim events of the past three weeks have cast the 10-year-old program in a new light. This time around, there is a renewed sense of purpose: No one wants to see a disillusioned Ukrainian biochemist drift into the wrong laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nunn-Lugar Act: Old Fears, New Era | 10/1/2001 | See Source »

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