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...tough to pick only one quote from Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O’Neal. Shaq seems to have an endless supply of humorous and arrogant witticisms that make you scratch your head...

Author: By David H. Stearns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE COMMISH: What Were They Thinking? | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...history to speak of, fabricated out of whole cloth a mere 200 years and change ago by a bunch of people who figured they'd start afresh on a brand-new, spotless continent. Maybe that's why we think we can go overseas and build brand-new nations from scratch--hey, that's how we did it, right? Wipe the slate clean and reprogram the patient? But as Joel discovers in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, it's not quite that simple: however much you wipe and wipe that slate--out, damned spot!--something, some mysterious, unerasable palimpsest, remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amnesia the Beautiful | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

Like fellow Texan switch-hitter Lance Berkman—a former Rice standout and current all-star leftfielder with the Houston Astros—the 6’4, 215-lb. Hendricks is only beginning to scratch his potential. Hendricks models his swing after the Astros star, driving the ball to all fields from both sides of the plate...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BASEBALL 2004: Blue Chips Bring It Both Ways | 3/25/2004 | See Source »

Smith, the captain twice-benched by Crimson coach Mark Mazzoleni, including a scratch against Rensselaer during a vital home stand with just six conference games left on the slate...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: One Second, One Goal, One Season | 3/24/2004 | See Source »

...different conclusion. If he arrived early, preferably first, and offered high-tech capability to Iraqis starved of it, customers would probably pour in. "This is the perfect storm for business," he says. "This is an extremely educated country with a lot of money, and you're starting everything from scratch. It's like a land grab." That is, if you live long enough to grab. Being an entrepreneur in Iraq may be among the most terrifying jobs in business today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Iraq Is a Hard Sell | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

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