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Despite being seeded No. 2, the Crimson fell quickly in the semifinals, 5-2, to a more experienced and tougher Princeton squad...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Tennis Falls in Semis of ECAC Championships | 10/10/2000 | See Source »

Hearing Vice President Al Gore and George W. Bush parry over who has the tougher testing regime on Tuesday night, you'd think you were caught in the middle of a good old my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad schoolyard brawl. You'd be right. And it's not just wannabe residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who are in this tussle. As the stakes of standardized tests have risen dramatically over the past few years, tying student promotion and teacher bonuses to the results of one stressful afternoon darkening ovals with a no. 2 pencil, some parents have begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Test and Test Not | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

...good one. Right after Marion Jones had won her hundred, Greene won his, against a much tougher field. And then, interestingly, Greene did not go crazy. He cried. He showed his true self. I'll tell you, he's a sweet kid, no matter what he looks like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...good on yer," he said. "It's tougher to run it that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrap-up: Letter from Sydney | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

...possessed woman is one of Amorth's tougher patients (he says he didn't witness the incident but was told about it later); and the Pope, he claims, had no better luck in dislodging the demon. After the Pontiff left, a voice was heard to speak through her: "Not even [the] head [of the church] can send me away." Odd as the story may sound, it is the third reported instance of John Paul's attempting to cast out a demon (the others took place in 1978 and 1982). At a time when official exorcists are being added by several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Liked The Movie... | 10/2/2000 | See Source »

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