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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find the hypocrisy itself more offensive than the similarly-vulgar names because we, as blacks, refuse to remember how it feels to be on the receiving end. We refuse to put ourselves in the other person's shoes--shoes comparable to those about which we constantly complain...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Name Game | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

Students sometimes complain that visiting professors raise their grading standards when teaching at Harvard, an outgrowth of the common perception that Harvard students are fundamentally more intellectual than students at other schools...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: HERE TODAY......GONE TOMORROW | 4/11/1997 | See Source »

With a mixture of paranoia and passion, the teachings rail against Judaism and Christianity and complain of oppression by nonbelievers, evil "Luciferians," whom they say will be "plowed under" in the apocalypse. Only those vessels prepared to receive the word will be fortunate enough to ascend when the time comes. Indeed, while the group may have given outsiders an impression of Christianity, their version of Jesus was most certainly heterodox. Two thousand years ago, the Kingdom Level Above Human appointed a representative to preach the Kingdom of God to earthlings. This being inhabited the container called Jesus (also known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MARKER WE'VE BEEN...WAITING FOR | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...suppose that, all in all, watching Chicago Hope is probably not the best way to prepare for surgery. Just about all the doctors do on that program is complain about their lives or argue with one another about who left the scalpel in some poor bozo's lower intestine. I pointed out a long time ago that if anybody you knew in Chicago found himself in that hospital, the best thing you could do for him would be to put him in an ambulance and get him across town to the doctors on ER. Those guys seem to cure just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A CUT ABOVE THE REST | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

They got some incentive two weeks ago, when the FDA approved for the first time the use of two protease inhibitors for children--Agouron's nelfinavir and Abbott's ritonavir. But parents and pediatricians complain that they still don't have enough information about how to use them. Nelfinavir, in particular, "went through the approval process very rapidly," says Dr. Mark Kline, associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "There are some basic pieces of information about nelfinavir that we don't have--like how often to give the drug or in what dose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS? | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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