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...Still, the year was a disappointing one for Kacyvenski, as the Crimson lost five games. The offense continued to put the defense in bad field positions and forced the defense to play a lot of minutes. However, the defense would often be stout for the entire game and then show cracks at the very...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Male Athlete of the Year: Senior Isaiah Kacyevenski Realizes His NFL Dream | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...parents and shower invitees would do well to purchase a good diaper bag, a stout stroller and an infant carrier or sling--remembering that it's not necessary to bring a new baby home to a roomful of gadgets. A safe bed, a good car seat and loving and attentive parents beat products like the Mommy Bear with "real" heartbeat ($20) every time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worst Baby Gifts | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...Shooting craps at Monte Carlo is a risky proposition, especially when you’re as loaded as the dice. Losing the shirt off my back was only the beginning; it took twelve stout men to part me from my Old Navy capri pants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Groovy Train: Spring Break Disasters | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...discipline and looting as reward. Conquered peoples were divided among the armies, swelling the ranks of fighters. Similarly, the technology of the conquered cultures was absorbed like more booty and enrolled in an intercultural war of conquest. Thus the elaborate catapults developed in Central Asia were deployed against the stout walls of China. And the explosive bombs and rockets pioneered in China were used in Mesopotamia and Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 13th Century: Genghis Khan (c.1167-1227) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...grabbed a stout piece of rope from Hamer's, and he set straight to work. Throwing the rope up and over the strong limb, he started trying to recall the right knot--he mustn't fail at this too. But with all his years of studying scripture, he'd lost the knotting skills of his childhood on his father's scratch farm (Judas was the only one of the Twelve from outside the fishing villages of Galilee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesus Of Nazareth Then And Now | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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