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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Rienzo says that Kaiser’s lectures are particularly engaging because of his ability to find the meaning in the graphic novels that the students read and because of his knack of presenting his thoughts accessibly...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kaiser’s Class All About Sex | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...writes co-captain Brian D. Grimm ’10 in an e-mail. “I think he ran the two-mile Cooper in around 19 minutes. But when it came to games,” Grimm adds, “it was clear Andre had a knack for scoring and a hard work ethic...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Andre U. Akpan | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...friends appreciate his knack for entertaining—not only for the food, but for what it reveals about Smith as a person. “That general sense of sharing his cooking extends to him sharing a lot of himself with his friends and his community,” Lee says...

Author: By Madeleine Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Most Interesting Seniors 2010: Ezekiel O. Smith | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

STORRS, CONN—Under head coach Tommy Amaker, the Crimson has had a knack for witnessing success as the underdog...

Author: By Emmett Kistler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Hangs Tight With No. 13 UConn | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

Italy's influential Northern League Party has stood out over the past decade for its particular knack in finding new (and not-so-new) ways of offending people based on country of origin and color of skin. In 2003, Umberto Bossi, founder of the party, which once espoused separatism, told an interviewer that police should open fire on the boatloads of undocumented Africans arriving on Italian shores, calling the would-be immigrants "bingo-bongos." Other Northern League pols have proposed everything from separate trains for immigrants to banning the building of new mosques and even prohibiting the serving of kebabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Italian Town's White (No Foreigners) Christmas | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

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