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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Although the problem to date has not been an extensive one, we certainly don't wish to see a single student inconvenienced and we'll do all in our power to make students' visits in this office both pleasant and brief," he said...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magnetic Strip Wear and Tear Causes ID Failures for First Time | 1/23/2001 | See Source »

...cannot explain this except to guess that the retired have got online in even bigger numbers than previously suspected. Even worse, Cassandra's photo scored an 8.4. I don't know how many of you are familiar with women, but let's just say this did not make things pleasant at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Sexy for This Drawing | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...showed only a few fleeting glimpses of competence at this technique, in contrast to my instinctive affinity for various ways of catapulting myself facedown in the snow. It was a sobering dose of reality for what had up to that point been a pleasant but purely imaginary endeavor. As I sat slumped in the car on the way home, feeling heretofore unknown muscles in my ass (pivotal for skating, largely unused while sitting at a desk) tighten and cramp, there was no doubt that it was going to be a long haul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happiness Is a Warm Gun on a Cold Day | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...when there is much to be learned--about friends, out-of-the-way places, and what will stick with you years from now. College itself is a vacation, a chance to take a long view and get immersed in a subject in a way few jobs allow. To my pleasant surprise, I am a long way, in my growth as a person, from where I was my first reading period, eating Double Decker Pizza Ring on the first floor of Hollis Hall. I hope, starting this reading period, to see what I have really learned--even if I can only...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Taking It All In | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...Prediction: Rumsfeld won't take too much heat over this; while it's certainly pleasant to imagine an underling taking Nixon to task for his paranoid rantings, it's not exactly realistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Which Cabinet Nominee Faces the Biggest Confirmation Pothole? | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

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