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Meanwhile, the unfortunate members of the twentysomething generation wander from "McJob" to "McJob" ("A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector"). Coupland says that the twentysomethings' attempt to keep social failure at bay through "status substitution," a kinder, gentler name for name-tossing...
...high. Fear of violent crime has prompted a sharp turn to the right in terms of popular feelings on criminal rights. An effective Democrat should be able to tap into that fear and make it work for him. Frustration over the general lack of safety in Bush's "kindler, gentler America" should naturally take itself out on the people running the government, namely Bush...
...kinder, gentler Undergraduate Council...
...establishes Schwarzenegger as a stolid icon with a sense of humor, swatting down some bikers like a bad-to-the-bone good ole boy, reloading one of the movie's zillion firearms with a fancy twirl of the wrist -- proving he has become, in Schwarzenegger's words, "a kinder, gentler terminator" by forswearing murder: he merely shoots off a record number of kneecaps. And T-1000 seems an ideal villain. It can replicate any person it touches and annihilate its victim with a slash of its rapier limbs: Cyborg Scissorarms. We eagerly await the moment when the T-1000 touches...
...went to the dean of students, whom she had been told she could trust. "He told me it was my word against my attacker's, and that if I went for a criminal prosecution, the victim was basically put on trial." So instead she picked the gentler alternative -- an internal review, at which she ended up being grilled about her sexual habits and experiences. Her attacker was found guilty of sexual assault but was only suspended, because of a dean's assurance that he had no "priors" other than "advances without sanction...