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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...name on their receptive brains. On '50s TV, The Mickey Mouse Club and Disneyland sold young viewers not just a theme park but a sanitized ideal of childhood. Walt also sold them friends: cartoon characters you could pack your school lunch in, fall asleep with or wear on your wrist. (The marketing genius of the Mickey Mouse watch cannot be overstated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jonas Brothers Movie Review: Kids vs. Critic | 3/1/2009 | See Source »

...second period, the pace picked up, with Harvard getting on the scoreboard first. On the power play, junior Doug Rogers found freshman Alex Killorn on the right side of the net. Killorn, who appeared to be in a passing position, sent a wrist shot on frame that squeezed between the post and Scriven’s right side. The Big Red, however, quickly tied the game back up when Colin Greening rifled in the first of his two goals on the night...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Beats Cornell in Latest Installment of Rivalry, Gains Ground in Conference | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

...rebound control, so I think he made a lot of good saves tonight, and he gave us a chance to win,” Donato said.But even though Harvard limited the Raiders’ chances, Colgate still managed to break through, as senior blueliner Jason Fredericks knocked a wrist shot into the back of the net at 14:01 in the middle frame, narrowing Harvard’s lead to one, 2-1.“[In the second period,] we didn’t play as well as we played in the first,” Donato said...

Author: By Courtney D. Skinner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Huxley Scores Game-Winner on Power Play to Send Raiders Packing | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

...just one bad guy; and a million more just like him, in London, Geneva, Hong Kong and lower Manhattan, are panting to take his place. They all know that, these days, banks don't even have to steal to increase their wealth. They take a congressional slap on the wrist, then pocket trillions from the Treasury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The International: The Banker As Bad Guy | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...streets, some staging singers and performers, others distributing revolution paraphernalia, many others handing out tea and sweets. Nongovernmental stands were accepting donations for the people of Gaza, and at one of them, two young men proudly displayed a gold bangle that a woman had spontaneously removed from her wrist and donated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran Celebrates an Earthshaking Anniversary | 2/10/2009 | See Source »

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