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...precisely the same moment even if the amateur pilots at the stick had wanted them to.) Beware! the news people warned. A man with the ability to wreak this kind of destruction could do almost anything. (As if living in a cave and dreaming up a way to knock down a skyscraper takes anywhere near the genius of, say, building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Idiocy of Evil | 3/12/2002 | See Source »

...high-volume accounts on which he can lavish personal attention. About five years ago, he deliberately reduced his slate of buyers from 72 to 48; in the subsequent year, his business increased almost 50%, and since then his work force has more than doubled. "Joe Schmoe's company can knock off our style," he boasts, "but they can't reproduce our service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold's New Rush | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Brown Coach Roger Grillo said. “He’s probably one of the best kids I’ve seen in college hockey in the last six or seven years as far as controlling play down low. He’s a tough guy to knock off the puck...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Ousts Brown in Double OT | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Takako Minekawa two years ago, and the birth last year of his first son, Mairo. But, Oyamada adds, his travels overseas have also helped him to reconsider life in Japan and his own surroundings. "I'd be playing the most obscure villages in, say, Germany, and it would always knock me out that people there knew my music even though I'd be singing in Japanese," he says. "But if you look at it the other way, I listen to music from Norway and I don't have a clue about what they're singing, either. What I felt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Supreme Ape Leader | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...men’s 500 meters, contested prior to the relay. And while American Rusty Smith became the hero of the early evening after winning a bronze in the 500, he was the goat of the late evening, tripping over a lane marker in the relay to knock the U.S. out of championship contention...

Author: By David R. De remer, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Weinstein, Relayers Fall Short | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

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