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Yesterday's concert, hosted by professional a cappella quintet Five O' Clock Shadow, featured the nation's six regional champions performing for no more than fifteen minutes each. By the determination of a random draw, the Callbacks sang last...

Author: By Sarah J. Ramer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Callbacks Place Third in National Competition | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...present fifteen minutiae. nit-picky as it may be, we just can’t get over the quirks and quibbles that endear and annoy, the peculiarities that sometimes make fm a little too fm. we scrutinize the bags on our shoulders, the linings of our pockets and the merits of those new-fangled low-flow shower heads. if only we could remember to floss twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: fmdial | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...things that haunt us—an em-dash here, the wrong date there. the writers’ cocktail meeting, the 1 a.m. dance party. all unfilled boxes, to be sure, but forgivable in the scheme of things. because we did make those blacklists. and we were only given fifteen minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: fmdial | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...large group then waited fifteen minutes in the small foyer. According to interviews with several group members, bar employees checked the identification of the group's members...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Politics or Prejudice? An Incident at the Temple Bar | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

...respond to school and office shootings--set up a perimeter and wait for SWAT--are gone. Now cops are trained that when they hear shooting, they should go in immediately, guns drawn, and stop the violence. "We had to make a change," says SWAT trainer Randy Watt. "Fifteen years ago, you didn't see people going in just for the sake of creating mayhem and planning their own demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready and Waiting | 4/24/2000 | See Source »

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