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...Philothei. Three chapters about people who are thousands of miles apart and will never meet. There are 625 pages and 101 chapters of this sort of cross-cutting. It's enough to make you want to throw the book across the room - except that it's heavy enough to knock someone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mandolin Overboard | 6/27/2004 | See Source »

...tough road trip, and a tough gym to play in,” sophomore middle blocker Seamus McKiernan said. “They came in pumped up and wanted to knock us off our pedestal. The problem was, we didn’t know much about them, and they seemed to know a lot about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M. Volleyball Fails To Take Advantage of Quick Start | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Coming off a 2002 campaign in which Harvard challenged for the league title, it appeared that the Crimson might have had the momentum necessary to knock off two-time defending champion Penn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Volleyball Starts Slow, Takes Fourth in Ivies | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...kept hoping I would get to knock on her door and borrow a cup of sugar,” she says...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Good Times’ Author Cooks Up Tales With Food | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...signals that the Central Intelligence Agency is more serious than ever about plans to expand its program of setting up cover jobs for CIA officers outside of the usual posts in the State Department and other government agencies. Some believe the CIA's non-official cover, or NOC (pronounced KNOCK), program is the likeliest way for the agency to penetrate terrorist organizations or even, say, the nuclear program of Kim Jong Il's closed regime in North Korea. "With terrorism, counter-proliferation - the kinds of threats that we face - you have to be more inventive in the way you deploy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NOCs Hard for the CIA | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

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