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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Duehay subtly criticized Councillors Kenneth E. Reeves '72, Timothy J. Toomey Jr. and Katherine Triantafillou for voting not to extend Healy's contract earlier this year...
...J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, imagined that being a kid was a fun-filled time, with little responsibility or worry, where the only requirement was to enjoy yourself and to kill pirates and frolic with mermaids. If he were actually a kid, however, he would have realized how unpleasant it is. In reality, kids have little personal freedom and even less privacy. Their lives are constantly regulated by their parents in the form of curfews and dress codes and scrutinized by their peers--ew, where did you like, dig up that outfit? Those who resent the authoritarian...
...popular image of grown ups is just as flawed as that of J. M. Barrie. Some people picture grown ups as though they're eternally trapped by mortgage payments, income taxes, marriage, alimony and/or dead end jobs. Adults seem to have less freedom than kids. Grown ups are like pin balls whose trajectories are defined by a series of obstacles that bounce them in a meaningless direction. After shooting out of college at high speed you slam into a four-figure monthly rent and you careen towards a career in I-banking. You're hit by 90-hour weeks...
...J. Hal Simon...
...consumers have a rapacious appetite for products, especially imported ones. Children have an addiction to Pokemon, just as their parents have an insatiable appetite for foreign-made luxury cars. With such examples, how can our kids be expected to curb their wants? NICHOLAS J. GRECO Rockville...