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...mini two-game road trip to Boston earlier in the season, Vermont proved how dangerous it can be. The Catamounts forced a 1-1 overtime tie on Boston University and then managed to put six goals on the Eagles stingy defense in a loss...

Author: By Timothy M. Mcdonald, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Hits Hanover | 2/21/2003 | See Source »

...Swedish massage center as well). Proctors will be forced to wear bow ties at all times and will serve weekly teas in our spacious dens, which won’t have chairs but only dozens of Japanese floor pillows. Other rooms will be filled with Zen rock gardens and mini-waterfalls to accentuate the relaxing mood. The popularity of this new housing complex will undoubtedly be overwhelming, and widespread support for this more luxurious mode of undergraduate life will compel the University to replace aging Houses with new mansions...

Author: By Laura L. Krug, | Title: Living in a Shoe Box (For Two) | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...even dealt deftly with his first media mini-controversy. Last summer Shaquille O'Neal asked a reporter to "tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'" In an Asian Week column early last month, the remarks were repeated, and Yao was asked for a response. Tongue in cheek, he said that Chinese was a hard language to learn. (To defuse any controversy, Yao had also sent Shaq a Christmas card, not a typical Chinese gesture.) Before the two played in Houston later in January, Shaq apologized, using the Mandarin dui bu qi. Yao invited Shaq to his home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Center Of Attention | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

Market research is notoriously pliable, but even before Team Yao started mining the report, companies were at the door. "We chose him because we just thought he was hipper than other people around," says Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who cast Yao opposite Verne (Mini-Me) Troyer in an ad for the firm's new notebook computers. Visa built its Super Bowl ad around Yao's brief English-speaking debut ("Can I write a check?" he asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Center Of Attention | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...mini is back, mini-er than ever. While it's unclear whether the women we know will take to them with vigor, the style is perfect for sashaying up a heavily photographed red carpet. And since nothing sells clothes like a celebrity, TIME asked some top designers which hot star bods they dreamed would inhabit their creations. Here is the ultimate minidress-model wish list: --By Desa Philadelphia

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mini Stars | 2/5/2003 | See Source »

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