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...Dumbest Duo to Monopolize Time of Lonely Boys with Nothing to Do but Watch TV and Go ''Heh-Heh, Heh-Heh'' Beavis and Butt-head, the cartoon troglodytes who critique (and promote) MTV videos. Their show became a teen fave and a parent's bane. In a crowded field, B. & B. were the year's top icons of idiot chic...
...initially ridiculed the comparison, I now acknowledge that his emphasis couldn’t have been better placed.I’ve never had a problem with the first evil, and I’ll have to plead the Fifth on the second, but late bedtimes have been the bane of my existence since freshmen year. And certainly this humble, yet irritable and reactionary columnist is not the only one confounded by this difficulty.Trucking along until the wee hours is one of the few things we students have in common—from pro-18th Amendment teetotalers to wild frat...
That depends on how you count. The Marines were killed not by suicide bombers but by the ubiquitous improvised explosive devices that remain the deadly bane of military patrols. The frequency and virulence of different kinds of attacks have ebbed and flowed, but since the beginning of the year, the average number of insurgent attacks has remained at a steady 60 to 65 a day. And what's happening in Iraq is no longer about just raw numbers. The sophistication, explosive power and lethality of the bombs that detonate have increased dramatically. Defense Department officials believe the explosive device that...
...additional 1.5 million vehicles a year by 2006, bringing annual production to 8.5 million vehicles. That's a lot of metal to move at a profit, and it's only getting tougher. Rising commodity and energy prices are increasing manufacturing costs. And looming interest-rate hikes, the bane of new-car sales, may make even today's volume tough to sustain...
...know that our excitement spelled horror for the Boston Police Department (BPD). It was Harvard-Yale—the day of The Game. And it was the catalyst for a new “crack-down” on drinking, a reinvigoration of the puritanical principles that are the bane of every student’s existence...