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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...film, he embodies a kind of pacifist resistance. The white woman's racist father sees him with some blacks and spits in his face. Atticus, with ferocious dignity, takes out a handkerchief, wipes off the insult and walks away. In this battle, he is the victor by refusing to fight. The force of eloquence, the power of restraint: in his display of these qualities, Atticus was a Caucasian equivalent of Martin Luther King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mockingbird Director Robert Mulligan Dies at 83 | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

...They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut, and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing against the Big Green. Harvard had to fight through nearly three minutes of penalty kill early in the first frame, after defensemen Kathryn Farni and Kati Vaughn were called for hooking. But as soon as Dartmouth’s advantage expired, the Crimson struck.Sophomore defenseman Leanna Coskren found tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt on the left side...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Ryabkina leads Harvard back to .500 | 12/21/2008 | See Source »

Whatever Blair's personal biases and inclinations are, as long as the U.S. remains in Iraq and Afghanistan, fighting two wars that have neither been won nor lost, he will have no choice but defer to the Pentagon. You can't fight over money and people in the middle of hot wars. If the Pentagon says it needs sand samples, that's what the intelligence community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Dennis Blair, Don't Expect Smarter Intelligence | 12/20/2008 | See Source »

...They played very alert, together hockey.”Just three days after being upset on the road by Connecticut and falling out of the national polls for the first time in over six years, the Crimson came out firing against the Big Green. Harvard had to fight through nearly three minutes of penalty kill early in the first frame, after defensemen Kathryn Farni and Kati Vaughn were called for hooking. But as soon as Dartmouth’s advantage expired, the Crimson struck.Sophomore defenseman Leanna Coskren found tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt on the left side...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Hockey Gets Back on Track with Win over Dartmouth | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

Defiant or recklessly stubborn, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on Friday vowed that he would not resign or temporarily step aside, saying he owed it to the voters of the state to remain in office despite polls showing some 80% want him out. "I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath," Blagojevich said to a packed news conference in Chicago's Loop. It was the first formal statement Blagojevich had made since being charged last week with trying to auction off President-Elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, among other alleged offenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Blago's Defiance, Echoes of an Idol, Richard Nixon | 12/19/2008 | See Source »

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