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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore’s post-election prospects pegged dead wrong. I figured he would go off across America searching as vocally for his lost votes as O.J. is for the “real killer.” I had expected him to make embarrassingly awkward and semi-legal statements every few weeks in between failed tries at running for a local school board. I was wrong. Gore has been the model ex-official, especially in the Clinton administration. Instead of screwing up, Gore has kept a low profile and let Clinton take the full rap for his own scandals...

Author: By Joshua I. Weiner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bush of Tomorrow | 4/11/2001 | See Source »

LaFrance said she felt that having only one permanent professorship in a field can cause a single voice to dominate the campus-a detriment in an emerging field like queer studies. Instead, she said Yale would continue to fund a semi-yearly fellowship in gay and lesbian studies...

Author: By Elliott W. Balch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alum Offers Yale $5M for Gay Studies Initiative | 4/4/2001 | See Source »

...disturbed to speak to all 2,000. So I took my cue from "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett and tried to interview just 16 competitors who were trying to prove they could survive a Hollywood audition. However I was to find that, like watching the "Survivor" program itself, or eating semi-rancid potato chips when one is starving, it's hard to stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Survivor 3': The Hollywood Audition | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Harvard Lampoon alumni, staff members and honorary celebrity members gathered last week to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez and Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Lampoon Celebrates 125th Anniversary | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...envy those people. Unlike them, I contrived to spend the last week at home in semi-charming southern Connecticut, where the rain washes down and the women are, well, pasty and uncommonly ugly...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Stereotyping Made Easy | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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