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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/14/2005 | See Source »

...sisters," recalls a monk at Ba Pai temple near Narathiwat. Today what both sides share is fear, paranoia and a simmering anger that the violence now threatens their homes. In the Buddhist village of Tung Kha, 54-year-old headwoman Penporn Suranatukul sits in the shade of a postcard-perfect temple, watching soldiers fill sandbags. Penporn lives in dread of Islamic militants. "They want to chase the Buddhists out," she says, her eyes welling with tears. "We're just sitting here, waiting to be killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buddhists Under Siege | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...first book, Our Wedding Scrapbook (HarperCollins; 64 pages), due next month. Couples can commemorate everything from the first date to the first anniversary on the album's spiralbound pages. Miller offers guidance and ideas along the way--ask your friends to put toasts in writing, mail yourselves a postcard from the honeymoon--but lets newlyweds do the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crazy For Keepsakes | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...chance to travel to Denver to cover the NCAA basketball tournament or to San Diego to cover a football game.  Quite a pity for Mr. McGinn.  I assure him, those trips were quite enjoyable.  Maybe I’ll send him a postcard from this year’s NCAA tournament...

Author: By David Baumgarten, | Title: Harvard's sports performance can't back up McGinn's boasts | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

...really make you feel better about those four years in second place, does it?).  More to the point, it’s those same benefits that have motivated many a high school student to send the little “Thanks, but no thanks” postcard Mr. McGinn mentions to the Harvard admissions office.  We have a name for those wise young souls: Princeton Tigers...

Author: By David Baumgarten, | Title: Harvard's sports performance can't back up McGinn's boasts | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

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