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Warning: The following movie may insult your positive IQ so severely that the result could well be permanent brain damage. Watch at your own risk. If you pay money to see this film, I will feel sorry...

Author: By Matthew H. Joseph, | Title: My Military Valentine | 2/14/1986 | See Source »

Furthermore it is an insult to ask the people of the Philippines to "forget the ballots" before the returns have been tabulated. Democracy is not an easy process in most of the world, but must be worked towards, not forsaken at the first sign of difficulty...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Enough Is Enough | 2/11/1986 | See Source »

...still no piece of cake. The Soviets orbited Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, in April 1961, when a new young President was getting ready to prove what a tough guy he was at Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Adding insult to injury, the news began to trickle out when John Kennedy had just tossed the first baseball of the season in Griffith Stadium, and he was eating a good old American hot dog. In the perverse ways of a frontier, the discouraging news would goad Kennedy and the country to achievements beyond their dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pioneers in Love with the Frontier | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

Welfare has been a political battleground since federally financed public assistance was made law under the Social Security Act of 1935. Traditionally, conservatives have viewed welfare programs as handouts to the poor and an | insult to the American work ethic. Liberals generally have considered it compassionate compensation for victims of economic and social circumstances beyond their control. But with the startling growth in the number of children being born to unwed mothers from the underclass, many of welfare's long- standing supporters have begun to question whether Aid to Families with Dependent Children programs may be exacerbating the problems they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Welfare to Workfare | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...insult to my reason and my faith in medical science to read last week's reports that Dr. Vernon Mark, Harvard Medical School associate professor of surgery, has called for a massive testing of the general public for antibodies to the HTLV-III virus associated with AIDS, and what amounts to a quarantine of all persons testing positive, a step directly contradicting even the most strictly and conservatively applied sound medical knowledge. Now, in the Crimson of Dec. 6, I must endure more of this hysterical nonsense. "People are not being told a straight story," says Dr. Mark. "We should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hysterical Nonsense | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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