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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson have a legitimate chance to grab a national championship in individual play. The Harvard men, who fell to Trinity, 6-3, in the team championships two weekends ago, boasts two of the top five seeds in the tournament...

Author: By Robert A. Cacace, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Squash Hosts ISA Championships | 3/2/2001 | See Source »

...Grab Amber! Grab Amber! Would it be the vacant one, punished for her lapse by tribemates who would have eaten Probst-burgers if they could decide who got to cook? Would it be Jerri, who's starting to get on Tina's nerves, or Tina, who's really starting to get on mine? Colby was turning cranky, and Kucha, growing fat on chicken-feed popcorn, was ripe for a surprise unraveling. Doritos and Mountain Dew could have made for a dangerous catalyst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! Mike — No Shrimp He — Falls on the Barbie | 3/1/2001 | See Source »

Quality moments of limit-testing are visible in many sports. Anyone who claims that baseball is boring lacks an understanding of this side of athletics. When Andruw Jones dives to make a spectacular grab in center field, the drama of the individual catch transcends the immediate circumstances of the play. Even the most devout Met fan has to express approval after such a catch because--if only for a second--the score that matters isn't Mets 3, Braves 2. It's Man 1, Limitations 0. The athlete has surprised himself and enchanted...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By The Bell: The Beauty of Bubka | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

...kill him with air strikes on his Beirut bunker, who was found by an official Israeli report 18 years ago to bear "indirect responsibility" for the massacre of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Maybe the coming of the old warrior is what recently led a clearly unnerved Arafat to grab a machine gun from a bodyguard and leap out of his car when Jewish settlers in Gaza blocked the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting For History To Happen | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...prospects. Look hard this year; you may not see America's pastime for a while. The owners are likely to cause trouble when the bargaining agreement expires at season's end. A long lockout may mean the end of baseball as we know it, while retirement may grab other greats, like my hometown hero, Tony Gwynn. Cut class and hit the ballpark in April...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Columnist Outtakes | 2/23/2001 | See Source »

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