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Dates: during 2000-2000
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With fewer than 11 minutes left on the clock, Harvard earned a corner kick, which Stewart sailed in front of the Hartford net. While the ball was still in the air, Kayulu committed a critical gaffe, knocking the ball to the ground with her hand. The act drew a yellow card and afforded Stewart a free shot on Nilssen...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Stuns Hartford in NCAAs, Advances to Sweet 16 | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...under pressure. We do not act just to try to improve our popularity ratings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Patience for a Peace Deal | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...Florida can't get its act together by Dec. 18, does Bush or Gore still need 270 to be President? A: Nope. They need only a majority of those states that have appointed their electors. Without Florida, that would be 513 electors, and 257 would be enough for a majority. Gore has 262 excluding Florida and New Mexico; Bush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Bound | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

...assume a total nightmare. The electoral college doesn't pick a president, the House and Senate don't pick a president - all by Jan. 20. What happens? A: Clinton has to leave office and, under the Presidential Succession Act, Strom Thurmond, the president pro tempore of the Senate, becomes President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Bound | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

...Though amusement alone seems an acceptable end in the art world these days, Gilje drawings are more then simple fun. Her accomplishment is that she makes the viewer reexamine the act of seeing. Because Gilje alternates more subtle "restorations" with overt ones, even an uninformed viewer will catch onto her game. Gilje's work makes you realize how quickly we scan images and, as a result, how much we miss. She asks that we reconsider the act of looking at paintings from the past, and perhaps art in general. No small mental task, but one well worth the effort, both...

Author: By Lisa Foti-straus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kathleen Gilje: The Ingres Drawings: Restored | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

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