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Shared enthusiasm bonds the freshmen together, but their modest and team-focused nature makes them reluctant to distinguish themselves...

Author: By Nicole J. Meunier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FROSH BRING FRESH ENERGY | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...Always modest, Mager attributes his success to luck more than anything else...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hits Keep On Coming for Scrappy Mager | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...thought. Stand-alone for-profit journalism on the web may in fact be dead or irrelevant, despite the modest rebound experienced by web sites like Salon in recent months. Yet a new form of journalism—nonprofit, collaborative, cheap and outside the control of professional editors—is rapidly changing forever the business of setting the national agenda. The phenomenon and the technology behind it are called weblogging, or “blogging” for short. Using free, easy-to-use software like Greymatter and Blogger, anyone can set up a personal website in minutes. While this...

Author: By Alex F. Rubalcava, | Title: Why My Column Doesn’t Matter | 4/3/2002 | See Source »

...freezin' threesome--a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), a saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and a sloth (John Leguizamo)--survives plot challenges of no particular ingenuity. The film breaks anthropological ground by revealing that humans lived in the Ice Age, but its contribution to cartoon history is more modest. It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Ice Age | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

...case study in state-sponsored looting." This week Ukraine is coming to the end of another bitter, rancorous and accusation-filled election. Officially at stake are the 450 seats in the parliament, or Verkhovna Rada. The most powerful challenge to Kuchma comes from Viktor Yuschenko, who acquired a modest reputation as a reformer during his time as Prime Minister and whose Our Ukraine bloc is way ahead in the polls. Yuschenko promises that "We'll build a Ukraine that we won't be ashamed of." The hidden agenda in the elections, Ukrainian observers say, is Kuchma's political survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In a State of Decline | 3/25/2002 | See Source »

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