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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard’s the eight-hundred-pound gorilla. I know that,” says Chair of the Allston Community Task Force Ray Mellone. “I’m not afraid of anybody talking about concepts, anybody talking about ideas. Harvard may be developing a lot of plans with their school of architecture. It’s their money, it’s their university, it’s their land. But there’s no way anything’s going to be built without going through...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard's New Frontier | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...years, Southwest has grudgingly played on the airline-industry team. It has long been a member of the Air Transport Association, the Beltway's 800-pound lobbyist gorilla that for years has been aggressive - and successful - in defending major airlines' interests. But not a happy one, and in 1997, after a few instances of getting what it thought was the brush-off from several members of Congress, the notoriously independent-minded Dallas-based airline broke down and opened its own lobbying office in the nation's capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southwest's Orbitz Fight Could Mean A Win For Travelers | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

...camera; Kong on the Empire State Building defying the planes that are coming to kill him. There were pictures of the giant mechanical head and hand of Kong. There was an illustration showing a section of the Empire State sloped like a ski ramp, with a man in a gorilla suit climbing while photographed from directly above. The graphic had been taken from a movie magazine that was getting out some prerelease publicity; like the facts in most movie magazines, it was incorrect. There was never a man in an ape suit in any part of the film, as "Famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...reading has its consolations. "Profiles" is a treasurehouse of old American invective. A veteran senator, instructing an incoming freshman, catalogues his colleagues as they walk down the Senate aisle: "The jackal; the vulture; the sheep-killing dog; the gorilla; the crocodile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Profiles in Discouragement | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...MOUNTAIN GORILLA Weight: 200 lbs. to 400+ lbs. From: Africa Secret Weapon: Intimidating nostrils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smackdown! It's WWF Vs. WWF On The WWW | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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