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Dates: during 2000-2000
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That is how Delaney-Smith describes her reaction upon learning last December that she had cancer. Having just recently turned 50, Delaney-Smith had gone to the doctor's office simply for a routine check-up when her physician informed her that she had detected a lump in her breast...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cancer No Match For Delaney-Smith | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...cancerous lump was removed from Delaney-Smith's right breast just before Christmas last year. She began undergoing chemotherapy soon after during the latter half of the basketball season...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cancer No Match For Delaney-Smith | 11/13/2000 | See Source »

...economy type; the employees were demanding offices with walls and, gasp, doors. The manager of the first group was "worried," says Sims, "that 'if I force them too much, they'll go down the road.'" The founder of the second company, Sims reports, felt staffers could "'like it or lump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Kingdom For A Door | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

...percent to 55 percent. But under an electoral system, unlike a straight popular system, this sort of majority vote inflation has no effect on the presidential election as a whole, because electoral votes are not awarded as a proportion of the state's vote totals but in a lump-sum. The Electoral College prevents "one bad apple" from spoiling the harvest by splitting the harvest into different baskets, ensuring the integrity of the election...

Author: By B.j. Greenleaf, | Title: Old School: The Electoral College | 10/17/2000 | See Source »

...Paper or plastic. Gore didn't want to choose, each option carrying its own environmental stigma. "Paper, just because I like the paper," he said, after grimacing theatrically. But he had a third way of his own. "How about this - you just lump it up in your arms and take it like that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore Finds the Kids Are Alright | 9/27/2000 | See Source »

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