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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Back at Harley's Milwaukee headquarters, one can only hope for heat. Priced at roughly $8,000, the Sportster is positioned to help one of the world's most iconic brands survive the gravest economic crisis in decades. But it must also help Harley-Davidson move beyond its aging baby-boomer base. (See pictures of Harley-Davidson's evolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harley-Davidson Tries to Rejuvenate Its Business | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Clarissa.” Have you? FM: Nope! JL: Yeah. It’s long. It seems hackneyed, because it’s the origin of these further conventions, so we couldn’t actually keep complete fidelity to the sensibility.6.FM: It seems that you’re hoping it will be kind of a gateway drug into these 18th-century novels. What would you hope that a reader would gain just by reading it? JL: I do wish that it brought people to read more 18th-century fiction and historical materials. The book is supposed to sort...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Jill Lepore | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...History of Ludicrous”, you explore the history of the word “ludicrous.” Say something ludicrous. MK: Unfortunately, my taste for the ludicrous has been destroyed by my academic study of it. 15. FM: Do you think this interview is ludicrous? We hope not. MK: (Laughs) Well it’s definitely ludicrous in the original sense of the word, which means playful. I will have to wait to see when it comes out in print to see if it’s ludicrous in the current sense of the word...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Matthew B. Kaiser | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...those mozz sticks are going to be HOT.” In the words of the infamous Gossip Girl, “You’re no one until you’re talked about.” Welcome to Harvard’s media scene, El. Hope you can keep...

Author: By Kate A Borowitz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Door Dropped: The EL Word Exposes Eliot’s “Elite” | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Nevertheless, the researchers also found that 90% of respondents said that members of the Khmer Rouge should be held legally responsible for their crimes. Many, including Vann Nath, a nationally renowned painter who survived Tuol Sleng because Duch put him to work rendering portraits of Pol Pot, hope that Duch's appearance in court means the beginning of that long-delayed accountability. During a break in the hearing, Vann Nath said he had waited a long time to see his old jailer on trial. "When he was in power, he was brutal, I was afraid to look at his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Cambodia, Pol Pot's Regime on Trial at Last | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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