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...Weakness is always a hard thing for students to admit," he says...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Debt Management | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...bloke happens to stumble upon any movie with Sally Field, it is indeed a sign of the apocalypse. I once caught (caught is the key word here) my father whimpering over a Lifetime rerun of Designing Women when Delta Burke leaves Sugarbaker's for good, and I have to admit I found it rather, um, disturbing. Trix are for kids, and Lifetime is for women...

Author: By Deidre A. Mask, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The mystery of machismo: where's lifetime for men? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...there is a more subtle and scary element to these preferences: when you ask these otherwise intelligent and thoughtful people why they support these candidates, they freely admit it's because they know nothing about what these men think. It seems they want to keep it that way, revel in their ignorance, and therein make a political error greater than the decision of one executive to indulge his sexual appetites in the Oval Office...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Why Gore and Bradley Must Debate | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...believed their old line anymore, that cigarettes were not addictive or dangerous," says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "The images of the tobacco CEOs denying the dangers of smoking play for laughs on the evening news." So they decided it was time to move on to a new tactic: admitting that a preponderance of evidence shows cigarettes to be risky, while leaving the actual language of disease to various government agencies. "This move is smart for Philip Morris from a legal standpoint as well," says Cohen. "Plaintiffs against the cigarette makers have been winning cases by divorcing themselves from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Flash: Cigarettes Harmful to Your Health | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

...what has heretofore been held as "acceptable," "courteous" behavior, and to thereby expose that courtesy for the garrote that it is. In short, we must come together in protest, under a threat that is perhaps more immediate and closer to home than we had heretofore been willing to admit...

Author: By Nicole Carbellano, | Title: Manners Mask Campus Homophobia | 10/12/1999 | See Source »

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