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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this poem we celebrate Marian’s life but at the same time lament it was a mere 20 years long,” Rosenberger said...

Author: By Jenifer L. Steinhardt and Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Memorial Honors Student | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

...only is The Crimson wrong to call for the posthumous awarding of diplomas to students expelled from the College in 1920, but it is wrong to lament their expulsion at all (Editorial, “An 82-Year-Old Mistake,” Dec. 6). To exaggerate as “cruel persecution” a very appropriate disciplinary move by the College is to declare that the College should not attempt to maintain any level of moral decency whatever. Today, indeed, as the College freely distributes contraceptive devices to encourage sexual activity among the students, it positively subverts traditional...

Author: By Gladden J. Pappin, | Title: Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...Iraqis are even relatively calm on the subject of America. Many, of course, are bitter over the 12-year-long U.S.-supported embargo, which Baghdad claims has led to thousands of infants and elderly people dying from preventable diseases. Ammar Shamal, 21, an engineering student, could muster only this lament: "I don't know what America wants from us." Despite a recent rise in Islamic fundamentalism, encouraged in part by a government-sponsored religious campaign, few Iraqis seem to share Osama bin Laden's repugnance for Western culture. Sitting on the lawn of Al Mustansiriyah University, geography student Hamid Lechali...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Live From Baghdad | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

...stroll onto stage was met with a deserved crescendo of shouting. But without a word he turned down the mood by launching into a slew of downers, from the old surreal folkie “Pay No Mind” to the new love lament, “Guess I’m Doing Fine.” Perched on a stool in a bland shirt and tie, Beck shunned the goofiness that waxed falsetto on Axl Rose and tossed out two-dollar quips during this summer’s solo tour. Instead, he seemed muted by the mature, dour...

Author: By Alexander L. Pasternack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beck In Black | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

...problem, many of these professors lament, is that the media is quick to attempt to turn professors’ arguments into soundbites. “The media want pundits, and they want pundits they can be sure of,” Bhabha says, arguing that some journalists aim to turn professors into “narrowly representative figures,” since it makes it easier for them to know who they can call for the liberal soundbite and who they can rely on for the conservative reaction. “There are times when [the media] stereotypes and simplifies...

Author: By Kate L. Rakoczy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Going Public | 10/31/2002 | See Source »

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