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...after participating in a shootout against Yale, the Crimson was forced to switch gears and compete with the Tigers at their own game, that is, in the trenches...

Author: By Nicolas O. Jimenez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Secures Third Seed with Three Points Over Weekend | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...converting Jews to Christianity. The critics' idea seems to be that Jews will be attracted by Old Testament aspects of the Holy Land Experience and then will get seduced by New Testament aspects. This seems to be Rosenthal's idea too, though he denies it. Holy bait-and-switch, Batman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Want to Convert? Just Say No | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

...Part of the problem, of course, is that cable isn't a very competitive marketplace. Heavy infrastructure demands make it a natural monopoly in most areas, and it takes a big rate hike indeed to get a customer to switch to what's usually the alternative: rabbit ears. Without liquidity in the marketplace, the rush of competition takes a lot longer than a year to materialize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does America Deserve a Lower Cable Bill? | 2/16/2001 | See Source »

...Lift your fork with your right hand, tines down, spear your chicken, cut down and to the left, down and to the left, switch your fork hand, put chicken in your mouth, replace the fork between twelve and four o' clock on your plate," she instructed while pacing amongst the tables...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Learn Fine Art of Interview Dining | 2/14/2001 | See Source »

DiIulio used to support capital punishment. Why the switch? In the course of his extensive research studying crime, he changed his mind, a change of heart he laid out in a 1997 editorial for the conservative Wall Street Journal. His beef is that death row is a crapshoot because there is no logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed in the U.S. since 1976, only 639 convicts have been executed. "It's become a lottery as to who gets killed," DiIulio told TIME last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Death Penalty Foe on the Bush Team | 1/30/2001 | See Source »

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