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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...appears voters may have been sold a pig in a poke. Roh the reformer is being dragged into a widening campaign-financing scandal involving several of his closest advisers, who are suspected of bankrolling Roh's campaign the old-fashioned way: by passing the hat to corporate chieftains for illegal campaign contributions. Already, Roh's personal secretary has resigned and the administration's former secretary for general affairs has been arrested. As allegations of illegal fund raising and personal corruption ensnare a growing list of aides and the country's most powerful corporations, Roh's troubled presidency is facing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Face | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

Defenseman Tom Walsh began the scoring sequence along the right boards and sent a quasi-shot, quasi-pass toward the net. It went off Du’s stick, Mandes took a whack and Du stayed on the doorstep long enough to poke it through...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hockey Surges Past No. 12 BU 5-2 | 11/26/2003 | See Source »

That allowed the Beanpot lifers in attendance to poke a little fun at the No-Show New Guy. After then-Harvard assistant Ron Rolston, Mazzoleni’s roommate at the time, explained the situation, Parker—sovereign king of one-liners—couldn’t resist...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard-BU: A Cross-town Rivalry On and Off the Ice | 11/25/2003 | See Source »

That allowed the Beanpot lifers in attendance to poke a little fun at the No-Show New Guy. After then-Harvard assistant Ron Rolston, Mazzoleni’s roommate at the time, explained the situation, Parker—sovereign king of one-liners—couldn’t resist...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard-BU: A Cross-town Rivalry On and Off the Ice | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...inadvertent poke to the eye temporarily sidelined the first-year sensation at the beginning of the second quarter...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Yale Finds Dawson Slippery, Unstoppable | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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