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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...span of nine years, Antley would win the Kentucky Derby not once but twice, the first time in 1991 aboard Strike the Gold, the second in 1999 aboard Charismatic. Even in defeat, he could be inspiring. Racing the Belmont in 1999, Charismatic came up lame at the end. Television cameras recorded Antley leaping off his mount to brace the ailing leg of the horse, saving the Thoroughbred from a potentially catastrophic injury. That was his golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death and the Horseman | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...triumph. The specter of a right-wing Israeli government and a more distant Bush administration will be used to tempt Arafat to conclude a final peace deal while his Camp David partners are still in place, although there's also considerable Palestinian skepticism about being stampeded into compromises with lame ducks. Palestinian sources have indicated that the Washington talks have been convened under pressure from the Americans and Israelis, and have suggested that Arafat is wary of a repeat of the Camp David scenario where U.S. and Israeli domestic political considerations rushed the process beyond its objective limits at that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hopes Slim at New Mideast Talks | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...that if the Rhodes scholar were to run again, he would easily defeat his veep and W.? The most successful politician qua politician of our day, Bill still gets 60 percent approval ratings, as if the Gallup Poll keeps on questioning the same pool. Al failed to use his lame-duck boss to the best of his advantage, a boss who would have zealously leapt at the opportunity to see more of himself in The New York Times...

Author: By Robert J. Saranchak, | Title: Gore's Election to Lose | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

GIRL 1: So you either look good with a hot date and suffer through the misery of the actual dance or you look lame with a gay date and get to enjoy the party...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...want to be a lame duck resting on my laurels," Murphy says...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine Won't Appoint New Dean | 11/28/2000 | See Source »

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