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...ceos and environmental activists, or take the high and mighty to places like prisons and drug clinics they would never otherwise see. And he also views himself as a gadfly in chief, bringing attention to neglected ideas and people. Bob Geldof, the rough-hewn rock star and businessman whose contempt for formality is acute, enthuses about Prince Charles: "He does a lot, he's hugely underappreciated. He takes the side of the people over what the newspapers and the biens pensants want. I have a lot of time for him. He kicks up a fuss." There's more: Charles' preoccupations...
...background, I, along with Time Inc.--which would be formally subpoenaed a few months later because the company controlled my computer-written notes and e-mails--fought the order to protect the principle of source confidentiality. We lost, and in early August 2004 we were both facing contempt. For Time Inc., part of the global behemoth Time Warner, that meant a fine; for me, jail...
...reviewer from Pitchfork.com wrote: “Death Cab for Cutie is something different… Life was good again.”In contrast, the weblog Onetwothreego wrote about their latest full-length “Plans,” released just six weeks ago with fiery contempt: “Damn, I’m disappointed by this one. Too bad I already bought tickets to their show on Friday, otherwise I’d have passed. I love this band, too, but the album blows. Too much whining, not enough rocking. Come on, guys...
...very name of the U.S. customary units’ progenitor should be enough to elicit the contempt and ire of Harvard students, but alas, for the most part they remain blissfully unconcerned. There is no student group lobbying for inclusive and internationalist measurements (although I’m told that some members on the Curricular Review are critical of the Imperial system’s “approaches to measuring”). No one seems to be concerned that Harvard students measure the volume of beer in gallons and barrels, not in liters. No one bats an eye when...
Many thanks for your recent op-ed (“Stemming the Tide,” Oct. 13), with its bracingly dire portrait of Harvard’s plague of student clubs. Its author, Adam M. Guren, shows an excellent and most perceptive contempt for the young. It is something I have experienced myself, this contempt, strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary...