Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What we're thinking: Those who fail to learn from The Monkees...
Then there are my blockmates, who specialize in, well, doing nothing. One of them (he has no thesis and two pass-fail courses) alternates between sitting on his ass and going around talking about how he has to go do some more "sitting...
...feeling like antiques collectors. There is very little that is practical about the Volkswagen Beetle. But like the great cars of yore, it has a personality that lets buyers say, "Look at me!" And so dealers haven't been able to keep them in stock. "The new Beetle fails at most categories," says Nissan's Hirshberg. "The only thing it doesn't fail in is drop-dead charm...
...whole life, went to school here and understands the kids. I've done it," Harshbarger said. "I offer a viewpoint that is unique because I identify with some of the children. We have children who are struggling in the Cambridge School System and we can't let those kids fail...
...fail us? Gun-rights supporters rightly point out that one of the charges against Buford Furrow was illegal possession of a firearm. Illegal, signifying that enforcement, not legislation, is the answer to keeping the rage of the crazies impotent. The police? At his press conference Wednesday, L.A. police Chief Bernard Parks resisted all his political urges and declared that martial law was not coming to the City of Angels. The "community" of Los Angeles, he hoped, would find a way to heal without a cop on every corner. The courts? Furrows had served his time for his confused knife-wielding...