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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...must act in unison. In the modern swing, the shoulders turn around a stable base like a coiled spring, building tension and potential energy, which unleashes a powerful, unerring ball flight. For years, golfers had turned their upper and lower bodies together, twisting back and then unwinding like a screw. It was a messy affair, which generated minimal power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf is Hell | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

...giant dolls that is as grand as it is eerie. Rambunctious comedy? Mike Reiss and Xeth Feinberg's Queer Duck is at least as rude as Knocked Up and yards funnier, whether its titular same-sex mallard is waddling up to the bar to order "a slow comfortable screw up against the wall of a bus station in Passaic, New Jersey," or enduring a spot of gay-bashing in an episode (from the 3min. filmettes on which the feature is based) called "Ku Klux Klan and Ollie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rats! Poo! Duck! | 6/30/2007 | See Source »

...punish Hamas by simply choking off supplies going into Gaza, and officials say they have every intention of using this weapon. Sixty percent of Gaza's electricity, 100% of its gas supplies and 40% of its water come from Israel and can easily be shut off. But twisting the screw too far could lead to calamity. John Ging, head of U.N. efforts to provide emergency food supplies to Gaza's residents, points out that "for the past 18 months, the people of Gaza have been living in a situation of relentless decline, and this foments a dynamic of violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Deal With Hamas | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...Bottomed Girls” to YouTube is the sort of risk schools want to encourage. Subjecting everyone involved in a student government scandal or newspaper plagiarism case to the same treatment as Tom DeLay or Jayson Blair would stunt growth more than thalidomide. Better to let students screw up privately now instead of publicly later...

Author: By Chris Beam and Nick Summers | Title: Blogging the Ivy League’s Follies | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

...other campus blogs, more of which launch every day—to insist on standards, no matter how sophomoric the subject matter. To give fair comment to the people we write about. To respect Google’s lidless eye. To bear in mind our own college screw-ups as we castigate others...

Author: By Chris Beam and Nick Summers | Title: Blogging the Ivy League’s Follies | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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