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...poor. They use their time, money and energy to serve society’s least fortunate members, and in light of these efforts, the stereotype of the heartless conservative is, at its most innocuous, the gibberish of simple ignorance. At worst, it is a deep and dishonest personal insult...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: The Myth of the Heartless Conservative | 5/16/2001 | See Source »

...those halcyon, bounteous days when dot-com pioneers bestrode the land like giants, tossing multi-million-dollar ad buys to networks like parade marshals tossing penny candy to children - NBC was strong and rich and could laugh at itself. Its upfront presentations were like Friars roasts, with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog (of Conan O'Brien fame) ripping mercilessly on the network's programming mistakes. ("'Stark Raving Mad' was a great show - for me to poop on!") The implicit message: a healthy network can afford self-deprecation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Upfronts: Kickin' it Down a Notch | 5/15/2001 | See Source »

...First, the sit-in in Massachusetts Hall was completely justified. The University thought that it could ignore its lowest paid workers and continue to pay them wages that are an insult to human dignity. Without the sit-in, the University would have continued to ignore this problem. The real question is why anyone should let the University to operate normally when it is violating human rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...insult the contestants and kiss up to the journalists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anne Robinson | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

DOUBLE WHAMMY Of the 2,841 mutual funds that lost money last year, 81% added insult to injury by slamming investors with capital-gains distributions. Standish Small Cap Equity was the worst offender, with a 65.4% payout on top of a 19.3% loss. On average, taxes eat more than 2.5% of returns, and starting this week fund profiles will have to disclose expected tax bites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Apr. 23, 2001 | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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