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...Blickstead ’05 withdrew his sponsorship for a modified bill because it “prostitut[ed] an idea to other companies.” But what Blickstead fails to recognize is that this project would not only turn our representatives into ring prostitutes, it would distract them from working on important matters of student interest and perpetuate the purchase of class rings—a ridiculous tradition whose ouster is long overdue...
...sound like a win-win situation, but watch out for the terms of the deal. "It can be fun and occasionally lucrative to get rewards," says Gail Hillebrand, an attorney with Consumers Union. "But don't allow the marketing to distract you from the true cost." Some factors to consider...
...read the book,” there is an essential honesty, albeit a cutesy one, that brings tinges of Bessie and Sarah. However, there are too many lines like, “I found two cheap tickets / on the Internet,” that seem so anachronistic they distract from the blues feel Keb’ seemingly tries to emulate...
...national debt: “the best things in life are free; for everything else, there’s Future Generations of Taxpayers.” But then, with both parties going on about doling out individual goodies (whether tax breaks or entitlements), it’s easy to distract the public from the mounting deficits; since their costs will fall on everybody, nobody wants to deal with them. I guess you could say the voters have been fooled by the “piece of the rock” they got...in the mail. But a common goal...
...Janet’s bare breast will certainly be forgotten by the American consciousness soon enough. But our national obsession with these frivolous sexual encounters is doing more harm than we realize. And while we continue to focus our attention on the trivial and the meaningless, we conveniently distract ourselves from things that might really matter...