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...went down, it got thicker and thicker,” Clemens said, reminiscing a day after the accident. “We got to the third floor [and] couldn’t go down. It was too thick. People were breathing through things, like through...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT Building Fire Kills 1, Sends 800 Fleeing for Safety | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...close it. “It’s the most athletic team maybe in the country,” Kerr said. “They’re also very used to this surface, which is a lot different from the East Coast where the grass is thicker. This surface runs really quick.”The shutout marked the first time all season Harvard has been held scoreless, and it was the Crimson’s first loss in 10 games.“They played well, and we just couldn’t seem to create many...

Author: By Aidan E. Tait, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zizzo, Bruins End Harvard’s NCAA Run | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

While reporters like to stir the pot and focus on the catfights, they don't seem to grasp that these are two seasoned professionals working at the highest level of American government with skin so much thicker than the rest of us. As Bush noted in his press conference on the day after the election, "This isn't my first rodeo." Or as my mother has always told me, "This business comes with a free head clipping. Every time you stick your neck out, they come around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Mother, My President | 11/12/2006 | See Source »

...tell-all memoir, Winning Right. The launch- party guest list includes Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman--whose own book, What a Party, is due to be released in January. That book's tell-all proportions are unknown, but attendees overhear McAuliffe boasting that his book is "much thicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ana Log: Sep. 25, 2006 | 9/17/2006 | See Source »

...political ground had also shifted under her as conservative Democrats fled to the fast-growing Republican Party. Her defeat was a shock to the national media. After all, she was a Texan loved beyond the Red River (though to some back home, her accent always seemed suspiciously thicker on Larry King). Most of the men around the Quorum Club table are gone, and now she is too. But the image of her there remains, as a wily woman who played the game with the best of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Much More Than a Good Ole Girl | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

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