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...year later, that statement is ringing as true as a slap shot off the post...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Jonnie on the Spot: Depth Key For M. Hockey | 3/17/2003 | See Source »

Russian Ark’s relation to history is even more complicated than it seems, however. While intended as a celebration of Russian history—and perhaps, a means of mythologizing the “accident” of Communism—the Russian Ark is a slap-in-the-face to an icon of Russian film theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Preview | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

Hence the French dilemma. "If they veto," says a U.N. diplomat, "that's a permanent slap at the U.S.'s face--very dangerous--and they threaten to make the Security Council irrelevant. If France abstains, it's not a player. If it votes yes, Chirac looks like a weather vane." Small wonder that, according to several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Diplomacy and Deployment: Countdown To War | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

...Golden Globe winner was then forced to sit through a grammar lesson taught by a man dressed in drag who towered above him. Scorsese was reprimanded with a slap on the wrist when he was unable to identify the grammatical error in the statement, “You Talkin’ to Me”—the famous line delivered by Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s film, Taxi Driver...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Crowns Scorsese | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...second goal of the night came at 3:15 in the second period, when she deflected a scorching Hagerman slap shot into the back...

Author: By John R. Hein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Cruises in Beanpot Final | 2/12/2003 | See Source »

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