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After TERRELL OWENS got sidelined for the rest of the season for talking smack about his team, he sent fellow Philadelphia Eagles birthday invites shaped like penalty flags that said, "No. 81 is at it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Life Gives You Lemons ... | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...liner notes, ?uestlove says that they had been performing the track since 1991, smack dab in the middle of the first generation of “alternative” rap, even though most people consider the Roots as messengers of the second generation...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Home Grown! | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...much luck with the fairer sex, and he nevera married despite interest in a number of women. Prudishness and shyness are partial explanations: when one woman made passes at him in a tavern, “He was at first cold, and then violent, giving her head a sharp smack,” Morris writes. But Beethoven also carried the albatross of physical unattractiveness: he had a swarthy complexion, skin pits, and short legs. One singer rejected him, “because he was so ugly, and half crazy...

Author: By David Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BookEnds: After Teddy Rex and Reagan, Morris Turns His Pen to Beethoven | 10/20/2005 | See Source »

Tuned in to the many ongoing debates on campus, I have been dumbstruck by a spate of opinions that smack of the one thing that each of us probably swore we would never exhibit: old-school snobbery. That’s right, snobbery: the unwarranted and self-congratulatory intellectual snobbery that tries to castigate an entire segment of the student body—athletes, for example—as unworthy and unnecessary to student life, and the snobbery that suggests we are all too important to be bothered with the foolish plebeians who see fit to visit our campus. This...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: A Surfeit of Snobbery | 10/18/2005 | See Source »

...many patients, but the ones left behind are the sickest and require even more attention. Median annual earnings for nurses are $48,090, and 10% of registered nurses make more than $69,670. The hours are odd, though, with lots of tempting overtime opportunities. "I've wanted to smack--figuratively smack--some other nurses," says Kay Ball, 56, a longtime surgical nurse from Lewis Center, Ohio, "and ask them, 'Would you recommend this kind of unbalanced lifestyle to one of your patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Careers: Five Jobs for Our Shores | 10/2/2005 | See Source »

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