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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Passing Questions 6 and 7 would help the vast majority of Massachusetts residents. The Commonwealth should put aside fatuous hopes of being a tax oasis and embrace progressivity...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Vote Yes on 6 and 7 | 11/8/1994 | See Source »

...Perhaps the Japanese would have submitted, although nothing in experience predicted that. One may argue whether the nuclear bombs really saved a million or two or more lives, Japanese and American, that might have been lost in a protracted endgame. But sometimes hindsight is decadent and a little fatuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hiroshima and the Time Machine | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

When it came to a book project, she was one of the all-time great bubble blowers. Never did those bubbles burst, either. Scheme after scheme was launched and christened. My ideas, no matter how fatuous, were buoyed up by her goodwill. It was, and is, one of my ambitions to write something that would last -- forever, no less -- as a thank-you letter to the U.S., where I have been so well treated. Months passed in this way, until the idea began to collapse under its own weight. She did not scold. But, she said, in her best down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Friendship | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...Does that justify Michael Fay's sentence? A letter writer to the New York Times advised that "six of the best," as he suffered at an English public (that is, private) school, might cure all that ails American youth. Comparing Fay's sentence to a headmaster's paddling is fatuous -- but then, as John Updike once noted, old boys of Eton and Harrow can often "mistake a sports car for a woman or a birch rod for a mother's kiss." The pain from flaying with wet rattan, as it is done in Singapore, can knock a prisoner out cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Whipping Boy | 5/2/1994 | See Source »

...student body can decide what the intellectual level of campus opinion writing should be by changing its attitude towards debate. Fatuous scorn has no place in editorial writing. After all, hunh hunh....Beavis sucks....hunh hunh hunh hunh...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Beavis Is No Bill Safire | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

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