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Then it arrived, in an anonymous UPS box. I brought it to the room, set the board on the table, unpackaged the plastic sticks and the small wooden pucks, and a dorm room legend was born...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The RaHooligan: Nok Hockey Jocks | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...rule of the game is simple: hit the puck into your opponent’s goal. The board has only two small slits as “goals,” and various other obstacles—such as diagonal corners and wooden blocks directly in front of the goal so that scoring is not easy. But there’s no defense. Shots are exchanged in turn. If you hit a bad shot and leave your opponent with an easy opportunity in your end, tough luck. Start the puck in the middle circle, and first person to five goals...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The RaHooligan: Nok Hockey Jocks | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...bookstore’s mascot, a bust of Shakespeare wearing a graduation cap, sits on a cluttered wooden table...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five Centuries of Books Find Home in Square | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...wilder than during the seasons normal games and certain cheers are reserved especially for Carolina, such as Hey UNC, who the fuck you come to see? Duke, Duke, motherfucker! Duke, Duke, motherfucker! When we win, everyone spills onto the Quad and builds a huge bonfire out of the large wooden benches that are in front of every dorm...

Author: By Thomasin D. Franken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Rival Rivalry | 11/15/2001 | See Source »

...confirm immediate achievements. But post-conflict analysis typically shows that barely one-third of videoed explosions caused the purported damage. In Kosovo, Britain?s Chief of Defence Staff reported "significant" damage to Yugoslav tanks from nato bombing. After the fighting, most destroyed "tanks" were found to be crude wooden fakes. NATO officials later conceded that many war claims had been knowingly exaggerated to impress public opinion. So now should we believe British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon?s statement that bombing has destroyed all nine al-Qaeda training camps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outfoxed in the Information War | 11/12/2001 | See Source »

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