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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...showed up at Xavier High School 15 minutes early on Saturday morning, which meant lots of time to be stared at by 17-year-olds. I felt creepy, like some intellectual pedophile. Actually, I felt like a real pedophile, but I tried to make myself feel better with the intellectual part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Excuse To Mention My 1480 Sat Score | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...election as close as this one, but which had also been at issue in some famously disputed Florida elections of recent years. In the Miami Beach mayoral race three years ago, incumbent Joe Carollo, a Republican, won 51% of the votes cast at polling places. His challenger, ex-mayor Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61% of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number of absentee ballots. Carollo filed suit, claiming that Suarez forged signatures on absentee ballots. In March 1998, Judge Thomas S. Wilson Jr. found massive fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election 2000: Eye Of The Storm | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...Since Xavier had solved the press after Harvard's initial run, the Crimson abandoned it entirely in the second half. Focusing its defense on the half court proved effective, as Croucher was no longer able to wreak havoc on the fly. Harvard held him to four second-half points, and the final score approached the blowout that seemed likely in the game's early stages...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Beats Xavier of Nova Scotia in Exhibition | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Although Xavier's height problems made starting to 6'6 forwards something the Crimson could get away with anyway, Sullivan was encouraged by the results...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hoops Beats Xavier of Nova Scotia in Exhibition | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...averaging 3.3 points per game in 1998-99, Harvey had to sit last season out. He returned home to Chicago to work for a lawyer, and took advantage of his time away from the office by working out with several former college players, including his brother, who played at Xavier...

Author: By Jared R. Small, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Something Old, Something New: Four Join M. Basketball Squad | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

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