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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy issues, the Clinton Administration would have taken care of them," Vice President Cheney told TIME. His group meets in secret - much to the chagrin of Democrats, who were attacked by the opposition when Hillary Clinton's infamous health-care task force operated behind closed doors. Hillary tried in vain to sort the winners from the losers in health care. In the Fossil Fuel Club, everyone's a winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dick Cheney Gets Coal-Fired | 5/1/2001 | See Source »

...over the proposals. And to be sure, Israel - like the Palestinians - has plenty of cause for skepticism over the plan. Indeed, it's hard to avoid seeing the latest proposals from Amman and Cairo as a warmed-over version of the cease-fire President Clinton tried desperately, and in vain, to broker last October at Sharm el-Sheikh. Except that much has changed in the region since last October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Latest Mideast Peace Proposal Probably Won't Fly | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...lineup over the next four innings. At times, he was every bit as unhittable as Breslow, finishing the afternoon with ten strikeouts. But as the game progressed and Harvard failed to even mount a threat on offense, the prevailing sense was that Crockett's fine effort would be in vain...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pitching Propels Baseball Past Elis | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...airport, King decides to play Riggs after hearing that he's beaten Australian tennis ace Margaret Court--then, to triple-underline the moment in red, she witnesses a male pilot feeling up a mortified, silent stewardess. What saves the film is its understanding of the odd symbiosis between the vain, garrulous Riggs--played by Ron Silver with an endearing desperation--and the equally media-savvy King, who needs his histrionic male chauvinism to advance her fight for equal pay for women athletes. It's half war, half platonic screwball romance; by the time the two play, they've achieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Center-Court Sideshow | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...team would try in vain to match Shewchuk's score, but Canadian goaltender Kim St. Pierre of McGill University would not allow...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Athletes of the Week: Jennifer Botterill `02 and Tammy Shewchuk `01 | 4/10/2001 | See Source »

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