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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...little growling from the DMZ guard tower. After peering through binoculars at the North Korean Peace Museum that displays axes used to kill two American servicemen, he yelled: "no wonder I think they're evil." In public and private, it has also become clear that Bush has a swelling disdain for European officials, relegating the pesky nit-pickers to the itchy class in which he has banished university elites, journalists and blow-hard members of Congress. He echoed Colin Powell's quip that the French foreign minister suffered an attack of the vapors when he suggested the "axis of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On His Asia Trip, Bush Stays Diplomatic | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

Once again, President George W. Bush and his administration have demonstrated an unsettling disdain for transparency in government. Thousands of documents from Bush’s tenure as Governor of Texas are locked up at George H. W. Bush’s presidential library, out of the public’s reach...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, | Title: Hide-and-Go-Stall | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...amount of disdain or resistance can change the cruel truth that Valentine’s Day is not optional. Do not be fooled when a date may reassure you that she’s open to your alternative conception of romance, with its emphasis on spontaneous affection without the pretense of custom. If you skimp on Valentine’s Day, she’s going to feel left out. She’ll wonder why other guys succeed in wooing their dates in spite of the artifice we loathe, and why she is the only girlfriend without a date...

Author: By Blake Jennelle, | Title: A Reluctant Valentine | 2/13/2002 | See Source »

...editor (Frankie Potente), and she accuses him of dislike and exploitation of his characters for the sake of entertaining his audience. Again, if this sounds like the aftermath of Happiness, it is. Solondz spent many interviews defending his attitude, claiming ambivalence and empathy toward his characters, and not disdain and mockery. Solondz continues to lampoon his critics as Oxman inteviews Goodman about the evils of college and the necessity of Scooby’s enrollment. Goodman angrily responds that just because Oxman didn’t have a good time, doesn’t mean he has to ruin...

Author: By Dan Cantagallo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Storytelling Chokes on Sarcasm | 2/8/2002 | See Source »

...first-ever newsletter this fall, The Advocates for Harvard ROTC, which numbers among its supporters former Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger ’38 as well as about 1000 alumni, praised Summers as someone who “pierced the thirty-year dark cloud of disdain and intolerance that enveloped Harvard ROTC...

Author: By Elisabeth S. Theodore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROTC Funding Raises Concern | 1/18/2002 | See Source »

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