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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...understate things, the mid-to-late 90's was a dark time for 'Canes fans. Gone was the glory of always being in the hunt for the national championship. Gone was the thrill of rooting for a team you grew up watching and admiring. And, worst of all, Miami started losing...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Hurricanes Nostalgia | 10/12/2000 | See Source »

...best Will "the Thrill" Clark can hope for is a Bud and a hi-five from a yokel with a beer gut. And while I'm sure that Birdy means well, the deck was stacked against him from birth...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Simply Amazin' | 10/11/2000 | See Source »

...assaulted several females when they touched some of the female's hair, grabbed their buttocks and their body parts and spoke to them in a seductive manner. 'Hey baby, what's your name?'" one soldier later confided to investigators that he groped the women "just to get a cheap thrill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How U.S. 'Peacekeeping' Became a Reign of Terror | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

...finish last, as if that matters compared to the rebuilding of a woman's dreams. The Olympic ideal allows for ambition, and in this she isn't lacking. It is victory she longs for; the thrill of speed is not, in itself, enough. Sierra Leone is a land of many diamonds, and Ekundayo Williams is as precious as any of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hope — But Not of Gold | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

...These days, as far as I can tell, kids have pretty much given themselves over to the plastic brand of lunchboxes or perennial paper bags - and that seems like a real shame. Where is the thrill in dragging a plastic lunchbox down the slats of a wooden fence? What kind of temper tantrums can a kid throw if the only thing she has to hurl down a flight of stairs is a brown paper bag lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lunchboxes I Have Known and Loved | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

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