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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with, if you're keeping score) after Pablo Mastroeni and Eddie Pope were thrown out of the game for rough tackles. The Americans were thus forced to play a man short - Italy's Daniele DeRossi got the gate earlier for trying to rearrange Brian McBride's face with his elbow. McBride looked like a hockey player who took a stick in the mush, but he soldiered on as the U.S. played desperately to preserve the precious point that kept their hopes alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gearing Up for Ghana | 6/21/2006 | See Source »

...Sudoku, a number game in a box, In less than two years, the puzzle has won a popularity that verges on the epidemic. It now appears daily in newspapers on all six inhabited continents and has spawned hundreds of magazines, not to mention dozens of books that elbow traditional puzzle volumes off the Barnes & Noble shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs Sudoku? | 6/17/2006 | See Source »

Like his predecessors, he's at the President's elbow with a Sharpie pen for autographs. But sharing Bush's love for streamlined systems, he also developed a faster thank-you-note process. Gottesman collects artifacts for a future presidential library, down to the whistles Bush blows to start the White House Easter Egg Roll. Since it's hard for the President to receive mail, Gottesman takes to work the catalogs he receives at home so that when the two have downtime on Air Force One, the President can choose running shoes and fishing gear, which Gottesman then orders online...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Knows Bush's Mind Best? | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...admit disappointment and doing her best to divert her adolescent daughter (an excellent Lindsay Lohan) from her addiction to writing suicidal poetry. It seems to me that she, alone of the cast, has the true Keillorian spirit, which is simply to use a kind of perpetual perkiness to elbow aside the surrounding dread (or at least darkness). I'm guessing, of course, but I suspect that's a spirit that she found in herself, that it's not something Altman coaxed out of her. There's no evidence, anywhere else in the film, that he is doing much more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prairie Home Miscalculation | 6/9/2006 | See Source »

...expansion of the Student Events Fund, which currently provides 500 undergraduates with free tickets to campus events.Through concerts, student group offices, and room parties, Harvard’s “social life” continues to uncork itself, and dedicated students and administrators have added a bit of elbow grease. The events of the past year have brightened the outlook of both space and funding for social life at the College, and we hope that the administration will continue to ensure the accessibility of quality social options to all Harvard students...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Bring on the Fun | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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