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...pain, as they try to hack-up yet another demographic-friendly allusion that is both witty and self-aware. Sure, the movie lacks class and charm-but today's kids don't want class and charm. They want attitude. And Shrek's got more attitude than a 24-hour marathon of Jeannine Garafolo standup (let us now take one second to pray that this never happens...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Unconventional Fairy Tale | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...TIME has learned that both Helms and Biden cited reports that Wintershall, an oil subsidiary of the giant German chemical conglomerate BASF, is currently in talks with the Libyan government about properties of the Oasis Partners, a U.S. consortium involving Marathon, Conoco and Amerada Hess. The holdings, which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, have not been operated by the Americans since 1986, when President Ronald Reagan imposed an executive order banning U.S. firms from doing business in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senators Warn Against Sale of Libyan Oilfields to German Company | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

Adding to the perpetual futility, the USA failed to qualify for all but one World Cup from 1938 to 1986, swallowed up in the marathon that is the qualifying round...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Boys II Ji-men-ez: Future Looks Bright For United States Soccer | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

...Twenty-four hours is not a long time to cover 88 years of history, and it all goes at a cracking pace. The best way to see them - at London's Young Vic - is over two marathon days. By the end, as the audience applauds the cast and the cast applauds back, there is no doubt that the kingdom is worth the patience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Scepter'd Aisle | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...originally wanted to do a dance marathon to raise money for a cause and we picked African AIDS," says Lauren E. Bonner `04, member of Har'd CORPS, a public service group. "We wanted and we needed a cause that would touch the global community. We thought it was a really important cause...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Competing Causes: PSLM Sit-In Takes Attention From AIDS Week | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

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