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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Even so, by the age of five the classical holiday commercials depicting Santa crawling down a chimney with a sack full of toys began to grate on my developing rationality. I enumerated a number of problems with the "Santa Hypothesis" ordered by degree of disquietude created: 1) The Logistical Problem: Too many houses existed to visit them all in one night. Counter-argument: Santa might have been able to slowdown or stop time. 2) The Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: The Christmas Lie | 12/12/2000 | See Source »

...first season in the starting line-up for the 6'2 225 pounder from nearby West Roxbury, Mass. He registered 29 tackles, five pass-breaks-ups, two fumble recoveries and one sack for the Crimson defense...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lineman Clare Named Harvard Football MVP | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced a depressing--but temporary--sense of its own vulnerability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: This Old House | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

Laborsky batted down two passes and combined with Green for a sack in an electrifying sequence late in the third quarter...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Denies Lions Pride, Gears Up For Penn | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

American voters disheartened by their choice should consider the poor Japanese, who have suffered through 14 sad-sack Prime Ministers since 1988. And before George W. or Al is sworn in, they may get No. 15. That's because the current leader, the tin-tongued YOSHIRO MORI, has bumbled big time into the high-stakes diplomatic drama on the Korean peninsula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Mori Would Have Been Better Off Saying Less | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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