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...GENERAL LEE" The original '69 Dodge Charger used in The Dukes of Hazzard made only one jump before heading to a Georgia junkyard (the fate of over 300 such cars). Rescued and restored in 2001, it was auctioned to an Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...downing of the Black Hawks in 1993--he is the last independent warlord in Mogadishu, a testament to his ability to play both sides of the net. Blunt-spoken and avuncular, Atto disparaged the U.S. cash-for-warlords program. "It was a waste of money," he says at his junkyard in Mogadishu, where the rusting hulks of dozers and pavers are still scarred by flak from U.S. missiles some 15 years ago. "I always told them that America's interests [should be] a government that is put in place without the pressure of money. They had their own ambitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror's Playground | 11/19/2006 | See Source »

...options.One of those options is sophomore Andrew Pusar, who saw only limited action last year. Think Beal, but three inches shorter and fifteen pounds lighter. A forward in a guard’s body, Pusar plays what Sullivan has referred to as “a junkyard-kind of game.” On defense, he is capable of guarding another offense’s playmaker and creating havoc for opposing teams by forcing turnovers that lead to fast breaks. On the other end of the court, Pusar can function as a slasher, creating open looks for the Crimson?...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BASKETBALL '06: Three’s a Crowd | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

Minaya, 47, the son of working-class parents, slogged his way up the baseball ladder, becoming the sport's first Hispanic general manager in 2002 when he took over the baseball junkyard known as the Montreal Expos, after being rejected half-a-dozen times for top jobs. The low-budget Expos overachieved under Minaya, earning him a shot with the big-market Mets. In just two years, he has remade a last-place organization lacking credibility into a paradigm of tried-and-true New York. The Mets are a diverse, dramatic (37 come-from-behind wins), free-spirited team that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How the Mets Got Red Hot | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...problem for me is when 6,000 disabled people are walking the street because there’s a pattern of noncompliance. That’s discrimination,” she says. She adds that the Cambridge Commission for Persons with Disabilities is treated “like a junkyard...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher and Anna M. Friedman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Four Citizens Clamor for City Council’s Ear | 5/10/2006 | See Source »

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