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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...started the second set. Kenyon was lobbing some weak second serves, so I tried to pass Larry down the line, but my accuracy of course was not great. It ended up looking like I was aiming for him and was a huge jerk...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, Ben C. Wasserstein, and Kenyon S. Weaver, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Fifteen-Love | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

...movie is based on a book by Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, hardly a Giuliani ally, which fed suspicion that it might be a hatchet job. Yes, it makes Giuliani look like a jerk, but that's both an insult and a compliment. You boo Rudy the jerk when he ends his marriage via a press conference, but you cheer Rudy the jerk when he pushes around insider traders and Mob bosses. Giuliani's philosophy was that it takes a tough guy to run a tough city. If that doesn't always come across prettily on screen, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Jerk, Perhaps, But Our Jerk | 3/31/2003 | See Source »

Others have also taken it upon themselves to repeat the obvious about Israel. In a measured and clear-headed response to the knee-jerk detractors of Israel, a group of Harvard students has put together a petition that repeats what everyone should agree upon...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Let's Repeat the Obvious on Israel | 3/5/2003 | See Source »

...mere 100 people are charged each day). Even so, one person a day simply refuses to pay up. When opponents to London's charging start talking, it is easy to see why the policy has not caught on elsewhere. "I'm not paying a tax just because some [jerk] hates cars. I'm taking my business elsewhere. This ain't the city I was born in," writes a visitor to the popular Sod-U-Ken website. Some portion of the complaints are legitimate. After decades of underfunding and neglect, Greater London's public transit system is often late and sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cars That ate London, Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid, Vienna, Athens .. | 2/16/2003 | See Source »

...presides over his traditional seat, the Dzongsar Monastery in Tibet, as well as several monasteries, colleges and retreat centers in Bhutan and India. But he also spends months at a time in isolated meditation. While he embraces the role dictated by his Buddhist lineage, he's no knee-jerk traditionalist: he views the ossified rituals and hierarchical structure of the clergy as threats to Buddhism's survival. Buddhism ought to be treated as a philosophy, he explains. "It's about how you look at your life. But sadly, (it) has become a religious theistic thing?a faith. And the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The God of Small Films | 1/27/2003 | See Source »

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