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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...redneck. But would you say that you've always been a redneck at heart? My definition of [being a redneck] is a glorious absence of sophistication. In my job at IBM, I carried a tool bag and fixed machines. Doing comedy has made me a wealthy man, but I drive a Chevrolet pickup truck. I wear jeans and T shirts every day unless I have to be on TV. I said to someone not long ago, "Here's the problem that the media makes: They tend to think if you gave rednecks a billion dollars they wouldn't be rednecks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedian Jeff Foxworthy | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

...That simple sentiment - revulsion about the Wall and all it represented - proved powerful enough to reunify Niebank's fractured nation. After Nov. 9, 1989, when the G.D.R. abandoned border controls, the drive for unity provided an overarching purpose that for many years shaped national politics. Reunification was Germany's greatest achievement of the last century - greater, even, than its postwar reinvention as an economic powerhouse. But as Germany prepares for an election just a few weeks before the 20th anniversary of that magical night in 1989, the fall of the Wall has become not just a metaphor for what Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Election: Divided They Stand | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

Several hours and drinks later, the former flings were kissing. Then Stein went home with him. In the morning, she made the drive of shame back home to her parents' house. "Here I was, almost 30, and my mom was so pissed at me," Stein says. She felt as if she were back in high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Gives Birth to the Retrosexual | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

It’s no surprise that, with the effects of obesity making headlines and the overwhelming perfectionist drive of most Harvard students, people on campus like to work out. After a few days at the MAC, however, I realized that some people aren’t exercising solely for the physical benefits. Instead, health at Harvard has become just another arena in which students obsessively compete...

Author: By Lea J. Hachigian | Title: Madness at the MAC | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

After starting the season 3-0 for the first time since 2005, the Harvard field hockey team was unable to carry its momentum into the first half of its Ivy League opener against Yale on Saturday. The Bulldogs (3-2, 1-0 Ivy) used their speed and drive to mark up a 4-0 halftime lead and managed to withstand a strong Crimson (3-1, 0-1) comeback to secure the 4-3 victory...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yale Hands Harvard First Loss of Season | 9/21/2009 | See Source »

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