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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Yesterday morning, at 12:01 a.m., the campaign for Undergraduate Council president began in a spray of soda, paint and colored posters...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: As Race Opens, Council Tickets Vie for Votes | 12/5/2000 | See Source »

...ideas or things are brought together in a way that never happened before, and when such juxtaposition occurs, the result is greater than the sum of the parts. One and one make three. A late 19th century engineer, Wilhelm Maybach, working for Daimler, puts together the newly invented perfume spray with the newly discovered gasoline and comes up with the carburetor. In 1823 Scottish chemist Charles Macintosh, working with a throwaway coal tar by-product, naphtha (used to clean out dyeing vats), stumbles across the fact that it will liquefy rubber. So he spreads the rubber between layers of cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventors & Inventions | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

Outside the building, a spray-painted banner hung tied between two trees. "We get our policy, you get Bendetson," it read...

Author: By Warren Adler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tufts Students Seize Campus Building | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...Palestinian Tanzim militia--which Arafat bankrolls--was reveling in the chaos, using it to try out new tactics. A favored innovation: sneaking up on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and the suburbs of Jerusalem to spray automatic-weapon fire. Barak sent Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh to the settlement of Psagot to placate angry settlers. Sneh was met by Ron Schechner. The two are veterans of the 1976 commando operation to rescue Israeli hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda. As they greeted each other, shots rained from Palestinian buildings nearby. Sneh's bodyguard urged him to take cover. "Look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bloody Mountain | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...Serbia), and even if Milosevic concedes the presidency, his control of a parliamentary majority would leave him as still potentially the most powerful politician in the country. Still, he can't have failed to read the writing on the wall from these elections - it's a slogan written in spray paint all over Serbia that says, simply, "He's Finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic to Arm-Wrestle for the Presidency? | 9/28/2000 | See Source »

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