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...court appearance, Stuckey pled guilty to seven charges in connection with a slew of Yard break-ins in October...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Burglar to Serve Two Years | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

McCain's grandfather John S. ("Slew") McCain was the World War II commander of a legendary task force under Admiral William Halsey. When he would pass through the U.S. during the war, McCain's mother would wake up the kids in the middle of the night and sit them on the sofa so she could take pictures of them with their famous grandfather. He died of a sudden heart attack five days after he stood on the deck of the battleship Missouri to watch the Japanese surrender. The obituary ran on the front page of the New York Times; President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fathers, Sons And Ghosts | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

...voters listen closely, and if they hear an undercurrent of false modesty or vanity, they will catch it over time. It may be that the reason McCain is able to come across as genuinely humble is that he's not talking to us at all; he's talking to Slew and to his dad. By their standards, he did his duty and did it well, but that was what was expected of him and not something to brag about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fathers, Sons And Ghosts | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

That long history of involvement in the club scene meant that Digweed's age was almost jarringly apparent at Axis. While the 33-year-old soberly put away a slew of Heinekens and concentrated on playing his music, the crowd seemed nave and collegiate by comparison. Many seem to have been pleased simply to have an audience for their various tricks with glowsticks...

Author: By Benjamin E. Lytal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A bedrock of house music: One of the dons of the U.K. house music scene comes to Boston | 2/11/2000 | See Source »

...manifesto explaining "The Former Website Incident," Knobler writes, "The e-mail harshly (and, although my perspective is biased, I would say baselessly) insulted both my website and myself." Crushed by the attack, Knobler scheduled a face-to-face showdown with his buff tormentor. Meanwhile, a slew of e-mails from other irked athletes relentlessly inundated his in-box until he shut down knobler.com for the first time in two years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The School of Hard Knobs | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

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