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...used to hate people who jumped on the bandwagon. They were the scum of the earth, unwilling to stick it out through the thin along with the thick. But now, it’s a different story...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love It Or Leeve It | 11/5/2002 | See Source »

They are gassing us! We really beg not to be gassed. We hope it will not be like the Kursk!" As a thick, visible mist enveloped hostages and their takers in Moscow's House of Culture theater, Anya cried for help through her cell phone. The hostage thought she was about to suffocate slowly just like the sailors trapped aboard the crippled Russian submarine Kursk in 2000. "We see it, we feel it, we are breathing through our clothes. We are all going to be blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bloody Drama | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...deserved the Teaching Police: there was the professor with organizational skills based solely on conversational whim, the professor who spoke in a whisper and looked up from his feet only when the fire alarm went off and the multiple professors who spent fourteen 52-minute sessions reading directly from thick pages of text. And let’s not forget the quality teaching fellows (TFs) who accompanied these professors. There was the one who started crying at a student question, the one who spent sections discussing his girlfriend and the one who regularly lost control of her cleavage, distracting half...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, | Title: World's Greatest University, World's Worst Teachers | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

They write letters, call voters, transcribe speeches and hold signs at rallies, known in the trade as “visibilities,” putting themselves in the thick of one of the tightest gubernatorial races in the country...

Author: By Christopher M. Loomis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Aid Campaigns | 10/30/2002 | See Source »

Three consecutive first-place finishes, however, thrust the duo back into the thick of competition...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bischoff, Porter Earn Berths in Nationals | 10/29/2002 | See Source »

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