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...trailed into the bar, Adam Levine and Phil Griffin, executive producers of NBC's "Hardball," belted "Harvard!" at the tops of their voices. We were led down to a center table in front of the stage and instructed to sit and be good Harvard students. Due to our dumb luck, we were special guests to the show that evening--not that we had any idea of what we were doing...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman and Frances G. Tilney, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Hit me with your best shot | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...want to see corruption?" he said. " Look at George W. Bush! Now he's probably too dumb to know what he did, but it was run through...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Presidential Hopeful Attacks Parties | 2/10/2000 | See Source »

...Greenspan of the Fed 7 Cacophony 8 Central figure in a 25-year-old murder case 9 Loesser's The Most Happy -- 11 Serious fluid buildup 12 Police, slangily 14 Bartlett's abbr. 16 "Be prepared" org. 19 Litter's littlest 20 Bauxite or galena 21 Dumb -- (old comic strip) 23 Sot's spree 24 Strip in the Middle East 26 Lesage's -- Blas 27 Benjamin's successor 28 Rush to sell, on Wall Street 29 New competitor for the Pentium 30 One-liner producer 31 Bradley favors Executive Order to outlaw -- profiling 32 Smeltery waste 33 Spanish ayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Crossword Feb. 7, 2000 | 2/7/2000 | See Source »

...squeaked Buckwheat before dropping into the deep baritone and Standard English he uses except when he's in character. "You mean the Society for Turning Up Phony Issues and Diversions, that secret outfit that goes around making us black folks look like fools by stirring up dumb racial controversies like the idiotic fuss in Washington last year over the word niggardly? Cut the Ebonics, Kingfish! If there's another STUPID racial fight going on, it's a serious issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Confederacy of Dunces | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...past couple of dispatches, I have appeared unhappy to be back, I am not alone. We are all backsliders here, having drunk deeply enough of civilian life during our Christmas break as to nearly forget we are all still volunteers. One drill sergeant calls it a "bad case of dumb-ass," another says he sees the same why-oh-why-did-I-sign-that-paper stare we had in our faces when we first arrived here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparing to Get the Boot From Boot Camp | 1/24/2000 | See Source »

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