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Dates: during 2000-2009
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This morning our nation awoke with a new president. After months of stimulating intellectual discourse, the people of America (or the electoral college as it may be) put an end to the statistical dead heats and elected either a stiff-necked Tennesseean or a record-dodging Texan to be the next leader of the free world. However, now is not the time to gloat about how the smarter man won out in the end. Nor is it the time to plan your emigration to Canada in the case that he didn't--at least, not quite yet. As counter-intuitive...

Author: By Lauren E. Baer, | Title: Prepping For 2004 | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...core businesses have been in an accelerating decline. In 1984 a federal antitrust ruling forced AT&T to spin off its lucrative local phone operations, now the Baby Bells. More recently, stiff competition from WorldCom, Sprint, the Baby Bells and wireless has been driving the profit out of the long-distance business--which still accounts for as much as 65% of AT&T's more than $62 billion in revenue. Ma Bell, which had been charging 15[cents] a minute for calls, suddenly found itself competing with rates as low as 4[cents] a minute. In this year's third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ma Bell Calls It Splits | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

Both teams' game plans were dictated by the weather. A cold, stiff 15 m.p.h. wind blowing straight down the field wreaked havoc on both teams' passing attacks. Rose's first two passes of the game sailed high and well in front of intended receiver Nwokocha, who was standing at the line of scrimmage...

Author: By Elijah M. Alper, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard Plows Big Green | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

...time we arrived back in the U.S., the Yankees were on the verge of winning the World Series. But after seeing Kim's weird spectacles and downtrodden society, one hopes the U.S. has something pretty stiff in the bag by way of continuing deterrent. Because when it comes to control, this guy has the Yankees beat hands down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Strange World of N. Korea's 'Great Leader' | 10/28/2000 | See Source »

Riddell's road to the finals began with a victory over Brown's Jonathon Argo. In the next round, Riddell faced a stiff challenge from Scott Carleton of Yale. Riddell finally pull...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Splits Squad, Still Succeeds | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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