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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Junior midfielder Alex Vap won the faceoff cleanly to tri-captain Doug Logigian, who shook the Crusader defender covering him and walked in practically untouched to make...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Lacrosse Routs Holy Cross | 3/19/2003 | See Source »

...considerable booty behind Inul after a TV performance. Even the television stations profiting from her appearances paid unintentional homage to Elvis Presley on The Ed Sullivan Show by cutting away from Inul's hips when gyrations commenced. Many middle-class and upper-class Indonesians read their papers and shook their heads at the controversy?then told their drivers to pick up a copy of Inul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inul's Rules | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

...don’t think it shook us very much since historically we’ve been a really strong back half team,” freshman Emily Stapleton said. “We knew that we had more firepower coming later...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Swimming Finishes Second at Ivies | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...divide over the war among its citizens at home. On the domestic front, women, gays and lesbians and young people joined blacks on the ramparts to press for their own liberation. Popular culture turned around so far and so fast that it became known as the counterculture. Which days shook things up most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Decade That Shook It All Up | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

More than a century before "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852) shook up American sentiments, an astonishing array of poets on both sides of the Atlantic were writing about the horrors of slavery. "The Wretches they to Christian climes bring o'er, / To serve worse heathens than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poets Against Slavery in the 1600's and 1700's | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

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