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Unfazed, one of my fellow hikers plunged an arm into the mire, frowned, reached further, groped around, frowned, and reached yet deeper. When my trainer (and his arm) reemerged, naught but a mud-clump coating could be seen. It oozed muck and scum. Probably toted small swamp creatures. Reeked, needless...

Author: By Julia Lam | Title: Soppy on the Emerald Isle | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...seemed to have been for naught. After a season in which they went 6-1 in dual racing, the Harvard men’s varsity lightweight boat somehow placed fifth at Eastern Sprints after a race in which they had been seeded first. It was disappointing, to say the least...

Author: By Alexandra C. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Successful Season Culminates at IRAs | 6/5/2007 | See Source »

...today's climate, however, this counts for naught compared with the blame that Blair attracts for ensnaring Britain in the fiasco of Iraq. As the Bush Administration careered from a war in Afghanistan to one in Iraq, with Blair always in support, it became fashionable to say the Prime Minister had become the President's poodle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You'll Miss Tony Blair | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...trial opened with a bang on January 23, as the elegant Theodore Wells declared that White House officials were making his client a scapegoat to protect presidential adviser Karl Rove. Washington salivated over the suggestion of a rift in the Bush Administration, but it came to naught. The defense never offered any testimony to back up the claim, and by the end of the trial, it was largely forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Libby's Defense Failed | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...popping $33.4 billion, and he changed the ownership structure of the firm to reduce his family's dominant stake. But in late July, almost six months after his initial foray, Mittal had his prize. He admits that the personal attacks were wounding. Yet ultimately they came to naught: through sheer obstinacy and financial savvy, Mittal, 56, overcame every sort of political, personal and financial objection to forge a global steel titan, a 120-million-ton-per-year company whose vast size and range, in theory, should enable it to ride out the ups and downs of a notoriously cyclical industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man Of Mettle | 12/16/2006 | See Source »

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