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BACKGROUND: An American dream personified. A stray of mixed parentage, she was rescued by the Gores and has triumphed over her humble beginnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pet-icularly Suitable | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

...Offspring is at home in that genre, when they stray away, the boys are certainly unwelcome strangers in a foreign land. Forays into more mainstream sensibilities seem a poorly conceived mishmash. On "Special Delivery," high pitched squeals from House of Pain's "Jump Around" trade off against the "ooga-chucka" repetition ripped from Blue Swede's "Hooked on a Feeling," while "Denial, Revisited" could have come from any band inspired by the '90s grunge craze. Offspring reaches too far in attempting to conjure lasting hooks on the more marketable songs, as they seemingly struggle to conjure a chart-topping, radio...

Author: By James Crawford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Offspring, Under Examination | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...Buchanan, is a freakish departure from the school's decidedly subpar norms. Rather than entering a new period of enlightenment and detoxification, Yale is slipping back into its long-accustomed Dark Ages. The iron gates in front of its dormitories can barely withstand the Viking onslaughts and stray bullets, and Yale's brief moment in the sun is revealed as an Indian summer before the long, howling winter of Eli discontent...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Sic Transit Gloria Eli | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...thing, the Yemeni might be reluctant to see the investigation stray into uncomfortable areas. While President Salah has worked hard against the odds to close down Islamist opposition groups supportive of Osama Bin Laden?s global anti-U.S. jihad, the fact remains that his government had previously relied on some of those same groups to help him win a 1994 civil war against leftist opposition in the south. But there may be more immediate reasons for shutting the U.S. out of the police work: With the Islamist opposition groups using the specter of increasing U.S. involvement in Yemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Yemen May Be Slow to Aid U.S. Bombing Probe | 11/8/2000 | See Source »

...with homemade knives and steel pipes and killed 11 of Cortes's homeboys. The attackers then gutted their victims and triumphantly strung their intestines along the prison barbed-wire like party streamers. They also cut the ears off the corpses and tossed them over the wall for the stray dogs. "It was a grotesque barbarity," says prison psychologist Oscar Suazo. "After it was all over, the 18's were laughing and flashing the gang sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gang-Bangers: A Deadly U.S. Export | 11/3/2000 | See Source »

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