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Nonetheless, the new expatriates have made the clearest and most severe demonstration of their disgust with modern liberalism. If things don't change soon, more American tourists might just go on permanent vacations...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: Escape From America | 11/16/1994 | See Source »

...then, for those of us who are growing impatient with the traditional categories of book classification, like "Geography" or "History," I have a radical new proposal. If it strikes you as strange, if you put down this newspaper in disgust, I ask only that you read it again after you've trekked to the Harvard Book Store or the New Book shelf at Lamont Library...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoff, | Title: What Dewey Read? | 11/4/1994 | See Source »

Alternating between objectivity and cynicism, Eighner explains the ludicrous inefficacy of the Texan social welfare system. He exposes the bureaucratic sinkhole of tax dollars and complete confusion caused by decentralization. His differing tones allow him to instruct the uninitiated, as well as to express personal disgust for an illogical system that has evidently forgotten its purpose...

Author: By Susan S. Lee, | Title: Down and Out in Dallas and Austin | 10/13/1994 | See Source »

...disgust students feel towards the tax is fully justified since most students benefit so little from council spending. Indeed, a Crimson poll found that 45.7 percent of students could not even name two activities sponsored by the council...

Author: By Evan Pearce and George Wang, S | Title: A Primer on the U.C. | 10/4/1994 | See Source »

More troubling are criticisms of Arianna's past involvement with John-Roger, a cult operator whose credibility has been challenged by an investigative series in the Los Angeles Times and charges by staff members who have left in disgust. In 1974 she began a spiritual quest that led her to Roger Hinkins, a former schoolteacher who assumed the name John-Roger in the early '70s after the "Mystical Traveler Consciousness" entered him after a kidney-stone operation. The Cult Awareness Network classifies John-Roger's Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness as "destructive," its most damning category. Author Peter McWilliams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should the Huffingtons Be Stopped? | 10/3/1994 | See Source »

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