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...would be foolish to assume that three decades since the Civil Rights movement have lifted white supremacy from any aspect of American life", Bond said...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bond Addresses Racial Injustice | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Garry Wills said in his piece "Leading by Leaving" that Clinton should resign. I strongly disagree. Resigning would only further lower the morale of a country that already feels foolish about this whole affair. What Clinton needs to do (if he's smart) is admit in a nationwide address that he has a problem with sex, then get into therapy and earn our sympathy back. I bet it would work. SUE RA Lansing, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1998 | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...Mecca and it isn't Lourdes, but Las Vegas is right up there among the holiest places in the world. In our hearts, we want to take foolish risks, pile food on our plates, dress like proles and shamelessly applaud lion tamers and dancing girls. Our lives are lies until we make the pilgrimage to Vegas and cleanse our souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicapping Iron Mike | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...entertainment. If Clinton has been more mercilessly ridiculed than past Presidents, we can excuse it as partly a response to his own decisions--beginning with his decision to run for office. But the other civilians caught up in the story never ran for anything. They may have done something foolish or wrong, but who of us can imagine paying such a price in humiliation for our stupidities and failures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cost Of It All | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...NASA says. Not everyone in the space community agrees. Alex Roland, a former NASA historian and chairman of the Duke University history department, has been outspokenly skeptical of Glenn's mission, questioning its scientific value and dismissing it as a trivial or even foolish use of NASA's scarce resources. If critics like Roland are right, the mission's science is merely a fig leaf. If it's a fig leaf, what is it covering? "This space flight is the same as the first one," says John Pike, director of space policy for the Federation of American Scientists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: Back To The Future | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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