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...listen to the naysayers and skeptics, the professional doom-mongers and moralizing tut-tutters; this is still a great country, and Paula Jones has proved it to be so. There was a time when only domestic fat cats and foreign tyrants could bring a presidency to the brink of destruction. But Paula Jones has democratized the calculus of scandal. She earned $12,000 working for something called the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission--surely the bureaucratic equivalent of the Maytag repair service. One spring day, as she manned a registration desk at a conference, fate brought her into the line...
...same as, say, playing card games. Or going window-shopping. Or re-reading old mail. Or going for a walk--not jogging, not power-walking, but just a pointless walk. Or talking with friends in the dining hall for an extra two hours. Or reading Cosmopolitan. Or playing "Doom...
...criticizing the Supermen and Wonderwomen for their choices. Nor do I believe that students avoid taking advantage of the resources the College offers. All I'm saying is that those of us who enjoy playing "Doom" shouldn't feel like sinners. If you aren't the kind of person who loves a particular activity enough to dedicate large chunks of your time to it, then trying to follow the Superman model can be a super-efficient way to make yourself miserable--if not from spending too much time on something you don't like, then from feeling guilty and inadequate...
Doesn't anybody smile on CD covers anymore? Has pessimism, or at least the appearance of gloom and doom, become a prerequisite for musical success? Do we feel that a smiling person just can't be taken seriously? Pop musicians, it seems, must be brooding and confrontational, or at least serious and slightly disturbed...
WASHINGTON: Brian Marsden, the man who issued the asteroid alert that set a million hearts beating faster Thursday, looks pretty foolish today. New information from NASA?s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests that the mile-wide rock of doom, known as 1997 XF11, will pass a comfortable 600,000 miles, or more than two moon orbits, from the earth -- not the tight and potentially catastrophic 30,000-mile squeeze that Marsden suggested. ?It?s all in a day?s work,? said JPL scientist Don Yeomans -- who also stopped just short of accusing Marsden and the International Astronomical Union of scaremongering...