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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...such a great leap. Level 1 is, like, eat only nuts and grains for a month, and Level 3 is invisibility? It was the greatest interview of my life. All I had to do was say, "What's Level 4?" And he goes, "Level 4 is, we can kill a goat just by staring at it." By the time we got to Level 4, I was thinking, There's a book in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Who Stare at Goats Author Jon Ronson | 11/4/2009 | See Source »

...profitable, it made newspaper managers terribly lazy. Even today the margins at most small local newspapers are still 20%. McClatchy is 20%, Lee is 20% and Gannett, if you count out USA Today, is 20%. At some point this may all change, but it's much harder to kill that kind of franchise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sizing Up Murdoch, Redstone and Other Moguls | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...something out of The Lord of the Rings, so accustomed are we to watching dusty urban combat on CNN. Surgeons disinfected wounds with Calvados. Unmilked cows wandered bellowing through the ruins of ancient châteaus. Artillery crews learned to fire airbursts into the thick tops of chestnut trees to kill those underneath with splinters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How D-Day Almost Became a Disaster | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...majority of the first set until two consecutive service aces by sophomore Anne Carroll Ingersoll pulled the Crimson ahead, 19-18. Cornell called a time-out to regroup, but during the next play, Wu made a diving save that kept the ball alive and led to a kill by Comrie. From there, the momentum completely shifted in Harvard’s favor...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Highlights Weekend With Sweep | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

...Columbia is] scrappy,” Comrie said. “We had to use all of our eggs to try and find a way to kill the ball...

Author: By Erika T. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Highlights Weekend With Sweep | 11/2/2009 | See Source »

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