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...course, even with this rag-tag team, the Americans are still the huge favorites. They are far and away the most athletic, skilled team in the world. Other countries may have one or two star players, but the Americans have a roster full of the world’s best...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MARCH TO THE SEA: Olympics Squad Not My Dream Team | 5/14/2004 | See Source »

...Sadr - whose widely respected father had challenged Sistani's "quietist" moderation under Saddam's regime, before its agents murdered the elder Sadr - has offered to disband his militia if ordered to do so by the Grand Ayatollah. Much as Sistani would like nothing more than to see Sadr's rag-tag militia strike its tent and disappear, he can't afford to be too closely identified with the Coalition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Future for Iraq's Insurgents? | 5/13/2004 | See Source »

...circus career, though he’s a tad embarrassed by some of his costumes. “I do a tumbling and juggling act with kids from the inner-city,” says Jack. As part of this act, Jack sports a leotard and a sequined do-rag. “It looks good on the kids,” he says, “but I just look ridiculous...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flipping Out | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

Hess hopes to achieve a similar effect with his plan, whereby a search of “CUcommunity ripoff” yields the Facebook, “worthless safety school” produces Harvard’s official website, and “worthless rag newspaper” brings up the Columbia Spectator...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Columbia Rebukes thefacebook.com | 3/9/2004 | See Source »

...Marines have been sent in to secure the American embassy in Port au-Prince as Haiti braces for a bloodbath. A rag-tag rebel militia on Monday overran the country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: A Dangerous Vacuum Grows in Haiti | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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