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...most down-to-earth person. I was just reading these things in the paper, and it's like, I don't understand where these people come up with these things. Like, I heard I was in this hotel in Europe, and I threw a temper tantrum because I didn't get a big enough room, and my quote was, "I sold so many more records than any of these other artists in this building." I would slap myself in the face if I said anything like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christina Aguilera: What A Woman Wants | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...that producers can substitute in place of real music, and of course, Carson Daly’s soon-to-be-networked blank face and five o’ clock shadow. [How bitchy is this current cast of the Real World New York? Usually, there’s an annoying tantrum thrower or naïve cry baby, but this current group just makes you want to give up on the amusement that is reality television altogether.] That is, of course, until the great digital cable explosion of September 2001. Now even the true north can no longer be strong...

Author: By Thalia S. Field and Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: SEEN + HEARD | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...fourth-grade class to know who Ed McMahon was), but now that my husband and I have kids of our own, we're desperate to get them settled every night. Despite our good intentions, bedtime at our house is routinely hijacked by homework, phone calls and the occasional tantrum--kids' and parents' both. Throw in wild cards like sickness, sleepovers and daylight saving time, and it's no wonder we've all got circles under our eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Lose Sleep | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...House. That suits Dennis Hastert, congressional man of mystery to 94% of the population, just fine. "I don't want or need notoriety," he says. Too bad. It's coming. With a razor-thin Republican majority and House members on both sides of the aisle already in mid-tantrum over the presidential election, Hastert is not just about to become known; he could be all that stands between a functioning Congress and legislative pandemonium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: The Not-So-Invisible Man | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...year, Carl Everett was tearing up opposing pitchers. He was considered a viable Most Valuable Player candidate. People wondered how General Manager Dan Duquette could possibly have acquired him so cheaply from the Houston Astros. They soon found out--Everett was suspended for 10 games when he threw a tantrum after an umpire asked that he stand inside the batters...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Fenway's Frustrations | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

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