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...They were dead people with nothing to say,” according to Smith. “They were fearful. They would be there for a few months, and then slip up and have a brief relationship, and then they’d come back feeling even more depressed...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can This Man Make You Straight? | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

...series of government oversight reports have served as a stinging indictment of the sorry performance here at home. Passenger screeners routinely miss about 20% of the weapons and explosives that FAA agents try to slip by them, according to the General Accounting Office (GAO). FAA agents have also found that it is easy to pose as an airport or airline employee or even as a law-enforcement agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Security: How Safe Can We Get? | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

Rose and Morris had finally clicked in the second half after struggling in the first. Rose had completed only five of 14 passes in the first 30 minutes, and Morris had been uncharacteristically quiet with 36 yards on three catches after seeing several passes slip through his fingers...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Football Holds On, Downs Brown 27-20 | 9/24/2001 | See Source »

...average dudes in sweatshirts. The band's macabre looks, like its hyperbolic lyrics, suggest the teenage alienation it sings about is a horror on par with the evils depicted in slasher pics--which is how teenagers see it too. Like it or not, Slipknot isn't likely to slip away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Knot Amused | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...lose." Bush was just as firm on his second point. "It is really important not just to go after the terrorists, but the people who harbor them," he said. Important to go after not only the states that support them, but the so-called "non-profit organizations" that slip them money on the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Rends Buildings, Unites Congress | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

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