Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with ethics." Listening to Purdy describe his zeal for Kant and Hegel, it's easy to see why certain critics can't help poking fun at him. Why so serious? And considering the status of Purdy's heroes--from the great French essayist Montaigne to the brave Polish dissident Adam Michnik--the objects of his derision seem like straw men. Purdy singles out for special scorn management guru Tom Peters, who teaches disciples to think of themselves as commercial, brand-named products; the cyber- magazines Wired and Fast Company, which promote, in Purdy's view, greed and self-absorption...
...Adam I. Arenson '01 is a history and literature concentrator in Lowell House. His column will appear biweekly...
...years that Rock was on SNL, 1990-93, the show was loaded with future superstars: Adam Sandler, David Spade, Mike Myers. Rock found it hard to get airtime, difficult to get SNL's mostly white writing staff to put him in sketches or understand where he was coming from creatively. He quit SNL in 1993 to join Fox's mostly black comedy show In Living Color--only to see it go off the air the next year. His career began to slide...
...doesn't the Kansas board of education hire some archaeologists to locate the graves of Adam and Eve? GRAY A. NESBIT Santa Ana, Calif...
...road to Super Bowl 2000, TIME Daily's famed pigskin prognosticators welcome some fresh (and ? gasp! ? female) gray matter to its two-man brain trust with the addition of "Mean" Josie Greene. She's new to the staff and ready to gauge the '99 gridiron alongside her Adam's-appled colleagues. Defending champ L.I. Slim is definitely feeling the pressure. From the new fearsome threesome, the locks of the week and the guesses of the rest. We'll be betting in Yugoslav dinars because ? as always ? it's for entertainment purposes only, lest someone get their thumbs broken...