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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Harvard, though, wasn’t the least bit intimidated, although it was aware that the wet, muddy conditions could play to the advantage of the less-skilled Providence squad...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Lax Dominates Over Friars | 3/14/2002 | See Source »

Onstage he's as manic as ever, sweating by the pint as his body bounds around, trying to keep up with the rapid-fire humor synapses of his brain. His jokes run from nonsensical (wet-burka competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Real Robin Still Stand Up? | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Roll over, Beethoven?and light me a cigarette. Ever since Thai-Chinese violin sensation Vanessa-Mae was featured on a 1995 album cover as if she had just won a wet-nightgown competition, record companies have been prowling for accomplished female musicians capable of playing fiddle at a high, steamy pitch. In bond (the "b" is lowercase in deference to 007 copyright lawyers), U.K.-based Decca Records has found its own variation of Sex in the Symphony. Released in 2000, the group's first album, Born, topped classical music charts around the world, selling more than 1 million copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex in the Symphony | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...converted Langdell library does not make a good wet lab, Hyman says...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Dreams of Boston as Biotech Center | 3/5/2002 | See Source »

...When I get here the first thing I do is take out the trash in all the offices and classrooms, then I have to wash the floors—I dry mop it, wet mop it, and buff it at least three or four times a week. I vacuum the rugs in the hall, then I do the bathrooms,” he says...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Janitor Sweeps, Negotiates | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

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