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...England - that motivated the old British Motor Corp. (BMC) to develop the first Mini. Its popularity among the minor royals and pop stars in Swinging '60s London gave the Mini cachet; at its peak it was among Britain's best-selling cars. "It was classy because it was classless, stylish because it wasn't styled," says Brian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There's a new Mini? Groovy, Baby! | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...point, I found myself surrounded by a bunch of green-clad three-year-olds who kept asking to "go poopie." The maturity dropoff wasn't that great. Most of the Dartmouth fans were loud, classless and pretty dumb...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved By The Bell: Hey Hey! Ho Ho! Where are the Fans? | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Perhaps appropriately, the rockets from the formerly classless society will loft decidedly proletariat payloads. O.S.S.S. hopes to mass manufacture satellites known as CubeSats, boxes measuring 4 in. a side that can be bought and launched for less than $45,000. Up to 100 CubeSats could go aloft on one SS-18 and be used for anything from experimental sensors for university science students to Internet relay stations to resting places for the ashes of a loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swords Into Plowshares: How Business Learned To Love Russian Missiles | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...Angel and Your Father was the Devil You'd Be Messed Up Too-and you have yourself a motion picture with quite a bit going against it. That said, I immensely enjoyed Little Nicky, a heartwarming story about the devil (Harvey Keitel, a bit out of place in this classless romp) and his three sons: ne'er-do-wells Adrian (Rhys Ifans) and Cassius (Tom Lister) and wimpy, innocent Nicky (Sandler). This isn't your father's hell; Satan rules justly over the condemned souls, respecting that a natural balance must exist between good and evil. However, when Adrain...

Author: By Dan Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Little Nicky Provides Big Laughs | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...dehumanizing teachers and demoralizing students, standardized testing unintentionally contributes to the state of decadence present in American education. Ridiculous as it sounds today, Harvard University originally championed the SAT (the first major standardized test) as a means to achieving a classless society. However, the system implemented has achieved other, unintended purposes. Instead of the mechanism leading society towards utopia, testing has become an absurd beast ravaging American academia...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, | Title: Stifling Our Students' Minds | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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