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...Lieut. Shane Osborn, the pilot who brought the crippled plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music. But he was all smiles as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend Roxanne Faustino and spun her around in a gesture as old as combat itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the White House Engineered a Soft Landing | 4/15/2001 | See Source »

...after winning the draw. But the Quakers countered just a minute later when Book picked the ball up in the Penn defensive zone and ran unchecked into Harvard's third. A pass to junior Jen Hartman led to a goal in the high left corner after Hartman spun around a Crimson defender...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penn Drops W. Lax to 0-3 in the Ivies | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...minutes to leave the score at 11-6. Murray ran through the fan to score the first goal. Harper retaliated less than a minute later with an unassisted shot to the lower left corner after Harvard won the draw. Murray responded with another solo show in which she spun her way around a Crimson defender and shot the ball over the left shoulder of Guyer while struggling to avoid a fallen Harvard defender...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Penn Drops W. Lax to 0-3 in the Ivies | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...lecture also spun off into some offbeat topics...

Author: By Sarah N. Kunz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Martha Stewart Dishes Business Tips to Aspiring Entrepreneurs | 3/15/2001 | See Source »

...strange mutation, spinning off a flat-out comedy from a serious drama. (Lou Grant and Trapper John, M.D., for instance, spun the opposite way.) The creators decided to make The Lone Gunmen a sort of spoof of the '60s spy genre. "All of us grew up around the same time," says Carter. "We loved Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, The Man from U.N.C.L.E." The Gunmen are a good bit closer to Maxwell Smart than Napoleon Solo as they drive a beat-up VW microbus and stumble onto government cover-ups and corporate conspiracies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Goof Is Out There | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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