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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...alpha and the omega male. One scene has him dangling a suspect from the high window of a tenement, then letting him go. Diesel fans know that if you let him into your apartment, you'd better clear the knickknacks off your freestanding shelving, because he's bound to throw somebody into it. Anybody else does this, you'd say he has anger issues - or, considering his character's surname, Toretto's syndrome. But Diesel doesn't get mad; he stays cooler than cool. The guy's an icebox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast & Furious: Auto Eroticism | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...still digesting the 2004 and 2007 enlargements), add today's Turkey (sometimes prickly as it struggles to solidify its democracy) and then conclude that this could never work. But by, say, 2020 both Turkey and Europe will hopefully have changed in ways that make them a perfect fit. To throw away that historic opportunity would be a mistake of historic proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Can't Europe and Turkey Get Along | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...quick throw to first left O’Hara in a pickle, prompting Stack-Babich to edge off of third in an attempt to help his cornered teammate...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Too Many Mistakes Plague The Crimson | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...time Ezekiel sat. I was busy looking for the best place to vomit, to vomit for no other reason than to get rid of something I felt but didn’t really know—impatience? Was that impatience sloshing around in me? Yes, I felt a throw up coming on, but then something stabbed me. In the leg.Was Old Man Grumpy jabbing me in the thigh? When I looked down I saw nothing. But I lifted my bottom just a smidge (not caring a flip now if I drew attention) and pulled up what was below...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: FEATURED FICTION | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Cooperation was certainly difficult to establish, mainly due to the growing influence of the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China), which are starting to throw a little weight around (though substantially less in Russia’s case). The heydays of the Group of 8 are over, and almost everything proposed at the summit had to get past the emerging economies. Case in point: When Sarkozy proposed a global crackdown on tax-heavens, it was Chinese, not American, opposition that cut down the proposal substantially so it could protect financial centers in Hong Kong and Macao...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Hail to the Chiefs | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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