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More than a dozen Cambridge residents spoke during the public comment session at the beginning of the meeting, expressing their disgust with the council's handling of the mayoral elections...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Attempt to Reconsider Mayoral Vote Fails | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

...worst pain inflicted by the louse may be psychological, the disgust and embarrassment of discovering that one's head is an ecosystem for insects. "It is a very traumatic experience," says Copeland, whose daughter suffered from head lice while attending an upscale girls' school in San Francisco. "I think it goes back to some primitive reaction. We just go crazy with lice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lousy, Nit-Picking Epidemic | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...would stir himself into a state of lasting disgust at the Marv Albert backbiting assault and underwear case, when one felt certain that Marv would (as he did) show up on Larry King, Letterman and Today to seek redemption by exposure? There was an exchange on the Today interview with Katie Couric that could be read as the clarifying moment of the entire century, let alone the past year, when Couric asked Marv why anyone should believe his version of the sordid events when he had already admitted lying to his former wife and fiance. Albert said, in effect, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YEAR EMOTIONS RULED | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...true meaning of Christmas--we at Dartboard were recently forced to take up the burden of Christmas contemplation. Listening to the radio one day, having to (as always) endure endless ads, we were appalled by a Toys 'R' Us spot that caused us to hang our heads in disgust...

Author: By Olivia Ralston, | Title: SAVING THE TOYS 'R' US KIDS | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...from innocent. When trying to entice a rich elderly lady to donate her fortune to his radio station, he describes an opera--which, incidentally, bears a startling resemblence to the Tony- and Pulitzer-Prize winning Rent--produced by his main competetor for the money. After describing it with much disgust, John declares that "people writhing around...singing political slogans does not constitute opera." Other potentially humorous moments in the text also ring with underscored conservative sentiments. Newt Gingrich is described as a "battling visionary" comparable to Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King. Also, when pondering his Norwegian heritage, John...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sweet Home Minnesota | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

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