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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Then everybody realized what we were on to, and the donations quickly--and deservedly--dried up. And it's not because our friends and peers were heartless elites. It's not because they had ideological objections to giving money to people. It's because they realized they were being taken for suckers. If a bunch of thirteen-year-olds can figure that...
...emergence of the Ben Folds Five kicked off the best performance of the evening. Much like their recent release The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, Sunday night's performance was straight-faced, emotional and talented. Almost the entire set was taken from the new album, as Ben Folds impressively rocked out on the piano for "Narcolepsy," "Don't Change Your Plans" and "Army". But Folds was not going to leave without showing the brilliant irreverent side he has been known for, and finished the set with "Song for the Dumped," featuring the eternal lyric "Give me my money back...
...wide array of your personality attributes, you will invariably be consumed with a desire to exercise your most neglected talents. While, granted, they are perhaps neglected because you don't happen to have much talent at all in that area, if these aspects of your identity are never taken out for a twirl, they will sit like a sulky wallflower in the dance of your...
...Hopefully you'll follow the latter course, the course also the course less taken (kind of like Math 25). I, for instance, might take a swing dance class instead, or perhaps just shake my booty all night long at a long parade of formals in the spring. Or perhaps I'll simply continue to irritate my roommates by asking them to teach me that move just one more time...
...Minutewomen's 3-5 record is deceptive, as all five of their losses have come against teams ranked in the Top 12, including No. 2 North Carolina and No. 3 Maryland. UMass Coach Patty Shea often front-loads her schedule against tough ACC programs, and has taken her club to the NCAA Tournament in each of her first two years at the helm...