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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sensitive to slights, he never forgot the rejections of Central High. To the end of his life he remained baffled that the editors of the "Cehisean," the Central High yearbook, had rejected a batch of his drawings. At the age of 53, he made sure that a high school report card was printed in facsimile in a collection of his work "to show my own children that I was not as dumb as everyone has said I was." He sustained the traumas of his adolescence far into adulthood - far enough, in the end, to see them become a crucial element...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passages: The Life and Times of Charles Schulz | 12/28/2000 | See Source »

...Costello, Bette Midler, Brian Setzer, Ricki Lee Jones and Tom Waits. But worthy though their contributions may be, they are mostly window dressing; Midler's terrific vocal on "Strike It While It's Hot" notwithstanding, nothing here really needs the star wattage to justify it. Hicks has written a batch of tunes as strong as any he's ever recorded; along with the Midler duet highlights include "My Cello," "I Don't Want Love" and the revved-up "Meet Me on the Corner," in which Hicks and Costello volley the lyrics fast and furiously. Always fond of revisiting his back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hicks' Licks a Hit Pick | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

...students came prepared with enough food and water to last through the week. They entered the building around 9 a.m., according to witnesses, and gave Tufts staffers a type-written note explaining the reasons for the sit-in. They also gave displaced staff members a batch of home-made cookies...

Author: By Warren Adler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tufts Students Seize Campus Building | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

According to, a student inside the building, the students who originally entered Bendetson Hall gave staff a typewritten letter stating their purpose and intentions, along with a fresh batch of home-baked cookies...

Author: By Warren Adler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Tufts Students Seize Campus Building | 11/29/2000 | See Source »

...maybe the counting board shouldn't have taken Thanksgiving off. But if Harris was any sort of diplomat, she might have graciously closed up her office, taken the whole batch in the morning, and in the process made her soon-to-be-litigated certification a little less temporary. Palm Beach, counting for posterity and the courts, finished before the ceremony took place. Bush's lead was not in danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida Is Certified — But Do We Have a President? | 11/26/2000 | See Source »

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