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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dartmouth’s no different,” she adds. “Their elite level of players tends to rub off on the others. It raises the bar for everyone...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Two Olympians Key for Big Green | 1/9/2004 | See Source »

...Russians are here, too. In Bishkek's bars, you can rub shoulders with off-duty troops from the newly opened Russian air base a few score kilometers away as they drink and dance to hard-core Russian techno. And in Fatboys, a popular café, men in suits and dark glasses talk about the region's geopolitical significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incursions in Central Asia | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...DIED. RUBéN GONZÁLEZ, 84, pianist and patriarch of Cuba's music scene who found late-life stardom after his appearance on the Grammy Award-winning 1997 album Buena Vista Social Club and in the subsequent documentary; in Havana. González, who was rediscovered by guitarist Ry Cooder, was initially nervous about playing on the album: he suffered from arthritis and didn't have a piano (his was ruined by termites). But he welcomed the attention and happily began performing again. "If I can't take a piano with me to heaven," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/15/2003 | See Source »

...airport. They head to Bishkek for R. and R. and the city's only department store, TsUM. In sneakers and baseball caps, they make a nice contrast to the Kyrgyz locals in their leather boots and felt hats. The Russians are here, too. In Bishkek's bars, you can rub shoulders with off-duty troops from the newly opened Russian air base a few score kilometers away as they drink and dance to hard-core Russian techno. And in Fatboys, a popular café, men in suits and dark glasses talk about the region's geopolitical significance. The youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Incursions in Central Asia | 12/14/2003 | See Source »

Skipping out on half a week of classes, four undergraduates traveled to West Point, N.Y. last week to rub elbows with top military brass and discuss United States foreign policy with college students from around the world—and still managed to make Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Get West Point Experience, For a Weekend | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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