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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...amidst the dull roar in front of Memorial Hall on that fateful day, the Quadlings were by far the best represented and most enthusiastic. They attempted to console their future housemates with slogans like "The longer the walk the shorter the class!" as seen on the Cabot House T-shirts, along with an anti-River poster campaign courtesy of the Pforzheimer gang. The warm welcome I received when I identified myself as a constituent of Currier House--namely that I was surrounded, cheered for, slapped on the back, basically all but carried off on the shoulders of seasoned Quad veterans...

Author: By Allison A. Melia, | Title: Calling the Quad Home | 4/5/2000 | See Source »

...next day the filmmakers' guerrilla-marketing tactics proved more successful: the audience that turned up to watch the movie nearly filled the dank screening room at No Dance. After a few promising minutes, though, SMTA!!! became a mess of dull, endless, off-color jokes. By the movie's climax, about a third of the audience had left, and those remaining (family? friends? people who were sexually probed by aliens?) weren't laughing. In the end, Crowley didn't win the award for best picture or best director. But the aliens did get the nod for "Best Guerrilla Marketing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Everyone's A Star.Com | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...Promising to free its readers from the pressures of trying to be "in and trendy," www.dullmen.com reviews dull books, tells dull jokes and lists dull events for every month of the year. The site, run by the U.S. National Council of Dull Men, has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...true that there are several professors here who genuinely love the Core and have made substantial contributions to it by creating accessible, interesting classes which are staffed by knowledgeable graduate students in the professor's department. Unfortunately, those classes are rare gems in a dull sea of mediocre offerings which could be great but aren...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Learning a Little of Everything | 3/9/2000 | See Source »

...words that registered were "not guilty," drummed out again and again, 24 times by the time the last defendant was fully cleared. About 140 miles to the south, in New York City, where the killing took place, where it was deemed too explosive to hold a trial, a cold, dull rain deepened the numbness brought on by the news. Anger could muster only brief marches through the Bronx neighborhood where the shooting occurred. One man raised his infant son in the air and pointed to the color of the child's skin. "Shoot him now!" But mostly it was momentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Black and Blue | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

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