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...beast, for anyone with a spare $100K or more in their just-gotta-have-it fund. While that may seem a little strange for an automaker that plays to a mass market, there's a sound reason behind this. Ford is in desperate financial straits, and they needed a button-presser. The GT40 is a limited production car with a price tag high enough that huge profit margins are guaranteed. Limited ownership. Limited liability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Cool Cars for the Rest of Us | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

After hitting the snooze button through the first half of the Ivy schedule, the Penn Quakers have finally woken up. They had to be backed into a corner before they stopped taking the rest of the league for granted, but if the Quakers play like they did in their 78-51 blowout of Harvard Friday night, no one—the Bulldogs included—will beat them the rest...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Life of Brian: Penn Not Fooling Around Anymore | 2/19/2002 | See Source »

...first child in my family to survive, and a lot of pressure was put on me. I remember saying, "Mom, I can't compete if I'm skating half the time that other skaters skate." And she said, "Well, I don't really understand that, because Dick Button and Tenley Albright won Olympic medals, and they both went to Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Points: Ice Dreams | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...social butterfly. Students can spend hours scouring their closet for the perfect outfit to wear to the Fly’s Calypso party or to a wine and cheese soirée. The most glamorous at Harvard hit the parties clad in hip jeans, sporting preppy button-downs and swinging designer purses...

Author: By D.b. Stevens, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Living It Up, Racking It Up | 2/14/2002 | See Source »

Milosevic is going to try to push the anti-terrorism button. He'll frame much of his defense around the idea that in the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was facing the same Islamic terrorism against which the U.S. has since gone to war. In the case of Kosovo, he'll argue that the operations he ordered were legitimate actions by a sovereign state to crack down on Muslim terrorists - meaning the Kosovo Liberation Army. And he'll sound a similar theme on Bosnia, saying that there, too, the local Serbs were fighting a war against foreign Mujahedeen fighters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World According to Slobo | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

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