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...flippant familiarity you use in talking about Their Royal Highnesses is insulting. An added injury is the inclusion of every possible unproven, gossipmongering rumor. Anyone who has had experience in serving the public interest and knows the sacrifice it entails must share my admiration for the royal couple's grace and dedication. They should be allowed to carry out their duties in an atmosphere of serenity and respect. Jacqueline Conte Castellaro, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 2, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...think about how your remarks are going to be heard by other people,” says Washington Post economics correspondent Nell Henderson ’80, who is also a Crimson editor. “It would be disastrous for you to say something that was flippant or ill-informed or facetious and have the markets crash...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confidence Wanes in Summers' Chances for Fed Chair | 6/9/2005 | See Source »

...only does Sichel accuse all Sabbath-observant Jews of homophobia, etc., she does so in flippant manner that prevents real discussion on the issues. In an otherwise legitimate column on Mideast policy, she suddenly inserts this unsubstantiated claim...

Author: By Josh Rosenbloom and Ariel Wolf, S | Title: Sabbath-observant Jews not as Sichel portrays them | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...Whenever [Bush] just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make,” said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. “The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush | 7/16/2004 | See Source »

...film details, with Moore's usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the left vs. Bush: the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq, its Patriot Act clamping down on civil liberties and its cozy relationship with the ruling families of Saudi Arabia, including the bin Ladens. Moore is particularly indignant that the President had a chummy White House visit on Sept. 13, 2001, with Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia, from whose country 15 of the 19 hijackers had come, and that in the dire days after 9/11, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: The Art of Burning Bush | 5/31/2004 | See Source »

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