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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when newly inducted University President Lawrence H. Summers approached UC President Sujean S. Lee ’03 with an offer to cosponsor the event, she was quick to snatch up his lifeline...

Author: By Aria S.K. Laskin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: How to Save Springfest | 4/28/2005 | See Source »

...poor. Bill Cosby is a clown. What do you expect? I thought it was unfair of him." His modest, soft-spoken manner belies what is obviously a deep sense of grievance. He describes sitting down at a counter not long ago and watching a white man next to him snatch $2 off the table. "He thinks I'm going to steal his $2. That's reality; that's the world I live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 100 Years in One Life | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

Both teams demonstrated their offensive skills in a match full of diving digs, resounding kills, and pumping adrenaline. Led by junior middle hitter Seamus McKiernan’s 21 kills and eight blocks, Harvard (12-3, 8-1 Sweeney) survived a shaky second game to snatch a 30-25, 16-30, 30-28, 30-26 victory...

Author: By Julie R.S. Fogarty, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors, M. Volleyball Continue To Roll | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...Snatch. The Lindbergh family's movements during the several hours preceding the kidnapping could be nailed down finally. On the evening of March 1, Col. Lindbergh, having overlooked a speaking engagement in Manhattan, arrived home within a few minutes of 8 p. m. It was a Tuesday, the first time the Lindberghs had remained beyond a week-end at their new, square-faced home, ten miles north of Princeton, since it was completed last autumn. The Lindberghs ate dinner and within a very few minutes of 9 p. m. Col. Lindbergh sat down at a desk in his living room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Hard Case | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...cites as evidence the myriad techniques Harvardians use to get the highest grades for the least effort: duping TFs with intentionally garbled e-mail attachments, forming study groups to avoid heavy reading, writing jargon-heavy papers that manage to avoid any empirical evidence and still snatch...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Ruling Class | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

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