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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first time gives one the sense that everything else is rank hypocrisy. His opinion of human nature was low, and that low opinion applied to his heroes and his villains alike - he was endlessly disappointed in humanity and in himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that he could never quite suppress; he could have become a bore, but even at his most despairing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...bunny that she still has that I threw in tar and the entire thing got tar-covered,” John Henry remembers. “She still has it in her room at home. Since she was three years old, she’s slept with a bunny rabbit...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Floods Keep Up Family Tradition | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

WHEN FANS AT NORTH Carolina basketball games roared for "the Ram," they were asking for U.N.C. senior Jason Ray, whose unabashedly goofy antics as Rameses, the Tar Heels' mascot, energized games--and the children's hospital wards he visited--over the past three years. In New Jersey for the NCAA tournament, Ray was struck by an SUV before the game while returning to his hotel from a convenience store and suffered massive internal injuries. After a three-day vigil that prompted prayers across the country, the business student died at Hackensack University hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 9, 2007 | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...leave a note: “No Studying after Daylight hours.” 12) Wash everything on cold cycle. Just do it. 13) Start a group in each house devoted to environmental issues...oh wait, never mind. 14) Shame the house with the most waste with public tar and feathering, or just yell “Garbage House!” 15) Change your name to Spring Greeney Jr. and become an awesome environmentalist...

Author: By Christina Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Ways To Save Energy on Campus | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

...moment the White House was assiduously touting the imminence of a massive terror threat in Iraq, they also appear to have mobilized much of its senior staff in a campaign essentially to tar Joe Wilson as a wimp. And in that is the sobering message beyond the Libby trial's legal minutiae: The same wise men who were assessing a phantom threat to America's domestic peace were the same people taking minute note of their own PR. Perhaps the larger moral here is that had Washington torn itself away from the petty melodramas such as who dissed whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Libby Came Undone | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

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