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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dale Earnhardt Crash: Answers Still Hard to Come By | 8/22/2001 | See Source »

...when I met her. She was quick to judge someone a bore, though ready to reverse the call on receipt of evidence to the contrary. I'd been at her house for dinner 50 times before she wondered whether she might be invited to mine. "I don't mind lap eating," she said. Having missed the bustle of a happy family life, she was thrilled to pitch in and toss the salad. She drew the line at busing dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman Of Substance: KATHARINE GRAHAM (1917-2001) | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...tour, the rock provocateur shows a film that depicts her as a battered woman. Some feminists have objected. In London, M cried, "God save the Queen!" but drew catcalls for her high ticket prices. For 85[pounds], a British paper quipped, "you'd expect her to lap-dance for you privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Diplomats Of Rock | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...JULY 16 2 A.M. At the talks, the first sign of trouble erupts as Pakistan issues an angry denial of India's claim that Kashmir was not discussed. In Bhatato Ramsoo, a hamlet in the lap of the Peerpanjal hills overlooking the main Srinagar-Jammu highway, gunmen burst into a mud-walled house and, without a word, open fire. Herdsman Mohammed Shaffi, his wife Fatima, daughter Janoo and another relative are shot dead. The killers then enter a neighbor's house and kidnap the owner, Nizamuddin. (He remains missing.) Soon after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War That Never Ends | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...when I met her. She was quick to judge someone a bore, though ready to reverse the call on receipt of evidence to the contrary. I'd been at her house for dinner 50 times before she wondered whether she might be invited to mine. "I don't mind lap eating," she said. Having missed the bustle of a happy family life, she was thrilled to pitch in and toss the salad. She drew the line at busing dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Woman of Substance | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

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