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...President, what is being a lame duck if not a near-death experience? Why can't he offend the power players? He doesn't need them anymore--unless he's planning to build a really, really big presidential library. He should be going after the producers of drivel, the teachers unions who protect the status quo, the fat cats to whom he apologized for raising taxes. Instead, how about criticizing them for their wretched excess--$1,000 bottles of wine, $250 cigars, Versailles-like mansions? Or reversing the appalling gap between their income and those who haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terminal Case Of Telling The Truth | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...supposed to mean energy and innovation to twenty-somethings; it means cable and satellite television, programming on demand and the wonderful horizons of the boundless Internet. Amidst such an array of choices, then, radio can sometimes seem like the forgotten province of bombastic talk show hosts and mindless drivel (e.g.Kiss...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Listen to Your Computer | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...community, your use of public facts should be tempered by a sense of responsibility and by the recognition that what you print has consequences. When you refer to Elster (in centimeter-high letters, no less) as "the alleged rapist," and when you fill your front page with innuendo-laced drivel, you contribute to--nay, create--a presumption of guilt within the Harvard community which I believe will be impossible for Elster to counteract, should be actually turn out to be what the law currently presumes him to be: innocent. SCOTT A. CHESIN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Presume Elster Innocent | 2/5/1998 | See Source »

...even if cable TV aired only mind-numbing drivel, students should still have the choice to waste their time. Harvard should not deny students cable based upon what they think of the quality of the programming. Such paternalism is not the administration's role. More importantly, a cable wire to every dorm room at Harvard would provide a great opportunity for media-inclined Harvard students to inform and entertain their colleagues through television...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: I Want My HTV | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

Kaufman called the article the work of "a handful of reactionaries," and published the names from the magazine's masthead and encouraged students to "let them know how their drivel makes you feel...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: Hate-Crime Incidents Rise | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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