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...haven't been on the road much, and the loud Cornell crowd kind of threw a us a monkey wrench," added Lutich. "We broke down late, looking for Hart and Denniston to pull us out when we should have played all together...

Author: By Dan D. Chang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Women's Volleyball Splits Games | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

...Covering this convention has thrown a wrench in the machinery of my anti-GOP bias: Despite my predictions, after spending five days surrounded by Republicans I am still alive. No one tried to bite me or kick me in the shin. In fact, I have met some truly delightful, charming, personable and humane folks. I should add, of course, that those particular people tended to be pretty moderate party members, or even lapsed Republicans spurred into renewed action by either the Bush candidacy or an overwhelming disgust with Clinton's peccadilloes. I've talked to women, men and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Liberal Confesses: Some Republicans Rock! | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...have flown out of my head before I even reach the bean dip? What does it mean if I walk into a room on an errand of some kind and discover that I can't remember if I came in for a dictionary, a soup spoon or a socket wrench? After a certain age, does everyone's cranial zip disc start to fill up? Or worse, can mundane, mid-life memory glitches actually be warning signs of such later-life dementia as Alzheimer's disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Improve It: The Battle To Save Your Memory | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

...Clark, the poster child for immutability, suddenly began to degenerate like the portrait of Dorian Gray? We'd be appalled. And none of us really wants our President, Bill Clinton, to change even one iota. No one wants to see him toiling monastically on his memoirs or with a wrench in his hand, building low-income housing for Habitat for Humanity. We expect and desire him, once he's thrown off the trammels of the presidency, to become the great Casanova (at least the great Bubbanova) of the Western world (at least the West Coast), noshing on marzipan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Changed Man? No Such Animal | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...throws a wrench in their PR machine," said McKean, who is also a Crimson editor. "[Pre-frosh weekend] represents a moment of extreme vulnerability for the administration--they [have] people here they desperately want to impress...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff and Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: PSLM Defies HUPD, Occupies Byerly Hall for Six Hours | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

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