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Years ago I owned a dog named Ziggy. Like many people and their pets, we were embroiled in a co-dependent relationship that prompted me at times to play games I knew would annoy him. One of my favorites was to take a doggy treat--a biscuit, say, or some hamburger--drop it into a glass bottle and toss it in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinkers: What's The Big Idea? | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House. He will write on politics and culture in the new, post-September Massacre world, and hopes that his words will continue to infuriate, fascinate, perplex and annoy. His column will appear whenever SES and JRL decide it will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Editorial Board of The Harvard Crimson is Pleased To Announce its Columnists for the Fall Term | 9/26/2001 | See Source »

...cozy with Pakistan in order to fight Afghanistan, won't that annoy India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life During Wartime: 30 Questions | 9/19/2001 | See Source »

Pentecostal preaching is mannered. Jakes' eccentric pauses, coy glances at his audience and the occasional odd, Holy Spirit-inspired stutter that sounds like a skipping CD might normally mystify or annoy the nonanointed. And yet, somehow, they do not. Like Brando's mumbling or Michael Jordan's outstretched tongue, they are pendants to an overwhelming gift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spirit Raiser | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

...spending priorities. The Administration has already signaled that it may scale back the next round of G.O.P. tax cuts, which are now unlikely to include a capital-gains reduction. This will infuriate G.O.P. conservatives. Bush officials have also hinted at unspecified spending cuts later this year--something guaranteed to annoy politicians of all stripes. Just last week Bush's 2002 defense request for $328.9 billion came under fire as potentially budget busting. Said an Administration official, referring to the the surplus: "We have to be very careful with this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One That Got Away | 7/23/2001 | See Source »

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