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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...poor showing on the attack was the result of a lack of urgency and an unwillingness to vigorously create opportunities. In the offensive zone, the effort to win pucks physically and crash the net was nonexistent...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Bears Deal Harvard First Shutout Loss | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...virtue of their indiscriminate audience and the lack of effort they demand, websites are an inherently superficial forum. Online communication occurs at the level of “networking” or “friending,” rather than by means of more authentic exchanges...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Olivia is… unnerved | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...Despite their small size, lack of public support and relative invisibility over the past 10 years, there has been an upsurge in dissident activity in recent months. Only last week, MI5 - the United Kingdom's intelligence service - raised the security threat posed by dissident republicans to "severe," meaning an attack was regarded as highly likely. This followed a spate of planned attacks which were intercepted by police, including a car bomb left in a County Down town last month. An earlier MI5 report in January suggested that dissidents may broaden their terror campaigns and attempt attacks on large-scale events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror Returns to Northern Ireland | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...country (relative to its neighbors) has regressed on the issue of women's rights and how ferociously the seams of a traditional Arab society that values female virginity have been ripped apart. Baghdad's Minister of Women's Affairs, Nawal al-Samarraie, resigned last month in protest of the lack of resources provided to her by the government. "The ministry is just an empty post," she told TIME. "Why do I come to the office every day if I don't have any resources?" Yet even al-Samarraie doesn't think sex-trafficking is an issue. "It's limited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq's Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters | 3/7/2009 | See Source »

...Wasilla resident named Dorothy Page moved to memorialize its importance by staging a race during Alaska's centennial celebrations in 1967. The inaugural title was won by Isaac Okleasik, who pocketed $25,000 for speeding through the abbreviated 27-mile jaunt. After a one-year hiatus due to lack of snow, the modest second running in 1969 drew just 12 mushers and paid out a mere $1,000. (See TIME's Top 10 Endurance Competitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Iditarod | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

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