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...disciplined nation of Singapore seems to be the newest whipping-boy of our righteous press. As we've all heard ad nauseam, an 18-year old American named Michael Fay has been condemned by Singapore's highest court to four months in prison a $2,600 fine and six lashes with a moistened rattan cane--all for the rather petty crime of vandalizing some automobiles...

Author: By Alec Permison, | Title: Beating Back Inhumanity | 4/26/1994 | See Source »

...Finally, we are angered by the way in which a rally ostensibly for the generic concept of "peace" and filled and nauseam with Vietnam-esque statements like "bring the troops home" was really an umbrella for the propagation of a larger political agenda...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Defending Defense | 1/7/1991 | See Source »

When introducing Souter to the press late yesterday, Bush repeated ad nauseam that he would refuse to let his nominee be judged by an abortion litmus test. The Senate faces that flooded the airwaves later in the evening mimicked Bush's call for a non-issue-oriented confirmation process...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Is Bush Courting Disaster? | 7/24/1990 | See Source »

Undoubtedly, you've been able to absorb some of the ambiance of this great institution we call home in the short while you've been here. And, just as assuredly, you've been given tons of advice--from proctors, from advisers, from friends and relatives, ad nauseam. You've probably even heard some of the darker secrets about Fair Harvard. Here's your chance to hear...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Cope With the Egos | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...idea of mastery has taken a beating in American art circles in the 1980s. Scorned by deconstructivists as the mask of elitism, downgraded by critics who ought to know better, misused ad nauseam by the art dealers' industry, and rare as the phoenix anyway -- Who wants it? And yet, who doesn't? Sometimes you come across a contemporary exhibition for which there is no other word, and the show of drawings by Richard Diebenkorn at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Richard Diebenkorn's Drawings, The Decisive Line of a Master | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

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