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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy,” right? Don’t worry if the wordplay is still taking a while to sink in, because Britney’s raunchy tutorial accommodates all tastes and learning styles: one pelvic thrust per beat in the chorus, repeated twice with Chippendale wannabes or curvy cheerleaders. Now the music mellows out in a haze of white and you think, “Oh God, she’s getting married again?” But no, it’s just Britney the Stepford...

Author: By Monica S. Liu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Britney Spears | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

During his junior year at Princeton University, Donovan Campbell decided to take the Marine Corps officer training course. Good for the resume, he thought - until he grew to embrace the Corps' ideals of service, honor and sacrifice. Campbell was soon a lieutenant in charge of a platoon thrust into Ramadi, Iraq in 2004, right as that city's insurgency blossomed. Unlike Fallujah, a city full of jihadists with very few civilians, Ramadi was "a much blurrier battle, a classic urban counterinsurgency, a never-ending series of engagements throughout the heart of a teeming city where our faceless enemies blended seamlessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joker One: A Marine's Bloody Iraq Memoir | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...ultimate indulgence in taste and texture. But even fans of the delicacy can't help but think about how it came to be. To make foie gras, farmers force-feed their fowl via a metal tube inserted in the ducks' throats. Chicago Tribune entertainment reporter Mark Caro was thrust into this very dicey corner of haute cuisine when he wrote a 2005 story about a famous Chi-Town chef's sudden ban on foie gras and the hatred in the foodie community he inspired. (Read "Fight for Your Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

...Well, I’m sorry,” I said in a real acute whisper.“No you’re not,” he shot back. Then he immediately went back to singing. The insolent codger!I flushed with shame as I was thrust from the pew. Of course I couldn’t challenge his abuse now that I stood in plain sight of every parishioner (yet again!). So, what could I do but offer him a winsome smirk—a way of saying to everyone else, “No no, that...

Author: By Nathan D. Johnson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Featured Fiction | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...season, Harvard was consistently among the top ten teams in the country, even reaching as high as No. 4 in the rankings at one point. But while the Crimson won nearly all of its games against inferior opponents, the team could not thrust itself into the top-tier of national powerhouses, finishing 0-5-2 against squads ranked sixth or higher...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: Hockey Season Lacks Luster | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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