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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leader. Forcing Milosevic to stand trial for the crimes he has committed would be an important step toward the sanctification of human rights in the international realm. Yet is the United States really the country that ought to be taking the lead in this crusade? Can we honestly expect, nay, demand compliance from Yugoslavia when we have so thoroughly thumbed our nose at the very concept of international criminal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...recognize Pi Day--and celebrate it separately from Albert Einstein's birthday, which is also March 14--will continue on our own, taking in its honor 3.14 slow drinks from a perfectly cylindrical mug. And we will imagine better times, when the whole nation (nay, the world) can join in a truly universal holiday--when 3/14 will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartboard | 3/16/2001 | See Source »

...solely for "hooking" an audience? Should it be more for the flow of the album? One member suggested, as a compromise, that we begin with the slowest ballad we recorded, which would, as he put it, successfully "compromise the album." The idea picked up three yeas and one nay-though two of the yeas were conditional that we only release the debut on 8-track tape...

Author: By Ty Gibbons, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hello, Cannonball! It All Comes Together In the End | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...question really is whether athletes who display no inclination toward academic success--nay, academic interest--should receive scholarships in the first place. "Boston Public" didn't attempt to answer the question of what the proper balance between academics and athletics is in a single hour, and I won't attempt to do the same in a single column...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Beyond the Back Page | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...voting record that Democrats are now using for target practice. In some years it got him a 100% approval rating from the American Conservative Union. Cheney opposed the 1987 reauthorization of the Clean Water Act, a bill that most Republicans supported. He cast one of only eight nay votes. He voted against Head Start funding. He says he did that because of his fears about budget deficits, but Democrats were shooting back last week that those fears didn't prevent him from supporting Reagan's massive military-spending increase. By the end of last week Cheney was also fumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republican Convention: Dick Cheney: The Insider | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

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