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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...didnot want to waste rifles on soldiers, the Germans did not want to waste bullets on Jews; in the case of Tania's parents, they tied the Jews together in twos and shot one member of each pair off a bridge as a dead weight to make the other drown. The movie's main duel combined with the romance is enough to make the movie a riveting watch, but not quite enough to make it a good one. Apart from the setting, this film is not original in any way, and will probably not go down in history with...

Author: By Sarah E. Kramer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No 'Enemy' of Mine | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...mosh pit. Chants rained down, attacking everything from Yale goaltender Dan Lombard's punctured lung, referee Dan Murphy's inane officiating (more on that later) and the pathetic offerings from both the Yale and Harvard bands. (Note to the band: When Harvard students are chanting, don't try and drown them out with that Irish jig). The chant of the series was "H-U-P-D" when the cops busted some pugnacious Eli supporters who went after the uncle of assistant captain Chris Bala...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The 'V' Spot: One Moore Trip to Placid | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...asking for Harvard Athletics to drown itself in sponsorship. Harvard could limit, as Princeton does, the level of corporate exposure to insure that our athletic events remain the focus of the crowd--while reaping millions to improve our 41 varsity programs. Perhaps we don't need the money, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't accept a handout...

Author: By Neil T. Rose, | Title: The Corporate Solution | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Heraclitean fire posited an absolutely unstable world, in constant flux, consuming and creating, the alternation and reconciliation of day and night, waking and sleeping, life and death, wet and dry, good and evil. "What was cold soon warms,/ and warmth soon cools./ So moisture dries,/ and dry things drown." And: "The earth is melted/ into the sea/ by that same reckoning/ whereby the sea/ sinks into the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 'Fragment' of Sense in a Mediocre World | 2/27/2001 | See Source »

...That was something they hadn't had to worry about in the past eight years, when Clinton was the voice of the Democratic party and could drown out the Republicans when he had to. Now the voice of the Democratic party is fractured among Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, New Democrats like Sen. John Breaux and assorted senior committee members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Bush's Honeymoon Ending? | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

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