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...field, Harvard faced some stiff competition from Brown, which took four events at the meet...

Author: By Rob Cacace, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Track Teams Host Harvard Invite | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD: Forget all those lurid statistics constantly peddled by the Goody-Two-Shoes lobby about the common cold's toll of billions of lost man-hours. See it in human terms: the common cold is a godsend, the greatest benefactor to the working stiff since the advent of the boring job. It's technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Inventions I Hope I Never See | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Observations, he had plenty of. The rubber strips that part for punched chads grew old and stiff over age, he told Gore questioner Stephen Zack. Some styluses were particularly apt to leave chad behind. Some people voted with the card on top of the machine, and only left dimples. Sometimes the chad basin filled up so high that punching through was futile. And Brace never missed an opportunity to tack a Gore talking point at the end of observations. The scanner misses votes, so all the votes in Maimi-Dade must be counted by hand, "the only way of absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredible Shrinking Voting-Machine Expert | 12/2/2000 | See Source »

...fresh to get maudlin, thanks especially to the surprisingly versatile Sparks, whose Michael, a romantic with an unrequited crush on Brian, is the de facto liaison to the straight world: "He's so accessible," says Sparks, "he almost forgets he's gay." Harold's preening-sexpot performance can be stiff (not just in that way) and is hampered by scripts that try too hard to psychologize Brian and make him "relatable." But half his job is to smolder, and he does in scenes like the one with Justin. Says Clunie: "Housewives in Peoria are going to see that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's Here, It's Queer Get Used To It | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

Despite what Nyren termed the "very stiff" competition, Panlilio and Eccleston both lauded the friendly atmosphere that has prevailed between the groups...

Author: By Ross A. Macdonald, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Game Shirts Make Fun, Money | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

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