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...flip a coin enough times, it is eventually going have to come up tails and you’ll lose,” Parker said. “It just doesn’t seem to come up tails...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ACTION JACKSON: Unusual Suspects Continue BU Streak | 2/4/2003 | See Source »

...hamstring them than their military counterparts do. In Afghanistan, CIA cargo planes were dropping warm-weather clothing, saddles and bales of hay for allied Afghan foot soldiers and cavalry. One cable that officers in the field sent back to Langley read, "Please send boots. The Taliban can hear our flip-flops." Says Kent Harrington, a former CIA station chief in Asia: "If a military special-operations soldier parachuted in with $3 million to buy armies, he'd have to have a C-5 cargo plane flying behind him with all the paperwork he'd need to dispense the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Secret Army: The CIA's Secret Army | 2/3/2003 | See Source »

...Khmer avenger wore flip-flops and a Britney Spears T shirt. He strode through the shattered glass doors of Thailand's embassy in Phnom Penh and made his way to a well-appointed interior office. There he joined a group of boys who had thrown a painting of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej to the floor. The boys didn't hesitate. The picture was torn and stomped on. "Thailand is no good," they shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blast from the Past | 2/2/2003 | See Source »

Because here’s the plain truth: the chances are not good that the Crimson can have an off month, flip the switch on for the playoffs, and then win three straight overtime games and the conference tournament for the second consecutive year. There was a better chance of Princeton beating Harvard in Cambridge by the same score two years...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: JONNIE ON THE SPOT | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

Junior Enrique Roy took first in the one-meter diving event, followed by freshman Danil Rybalko. The pair flip-flopped in the three-meter event...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Swimming Topples No. 18 Pittsburgh, Varies Lineup To Beat Navy | 1/6/2003 | See Source »

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