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...strictly from creative differences: in fact, many of the members of The High Ceilings offered their musical abilities during the production of their old comrade’s debut. The new album that Heinegg had been working on since the band split up is not so much an insult to his old faithful metal-rock fans, but merely an expression of his overlooked stylistic soft side...

Author: By Mary CATHERINE Brouder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CD Review - By June | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

It’s not so much an insult as an observation. That summer, I worked at a local newspaper, and my editor told me to go into police reporting because I looked “harmless” and “distracted...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Having a Blonde Moment | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...offensive parts of this amendment immediately. Whatever marginal advantage the Byrd amendment might conceivably have given steel companies will clearly be outweighed by the $150 million of punitive tariffs that other countries will soon impose on American goods. Manufacturers in otherwise successful industries do not need such an insult from law-makers...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The WTO Strikes Back | 12/2/2004 | See Source »

...precise chemical constituents, and then tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown up, like so many Americans, surrounded by Coca-Cola, hamburgers and The Muppet Show." That weirdly parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make or break a vintage in the newsletter he produces from his Maryland home office, with his flatulent bulldog George and his basset hound Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War on Terroir | 11/28/2004 | See Source »

...insult to injury, the cheerleaders often have trouble obtaining the medical attention they need...

Author: By Stewart H. Hauser, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Give me an "H" | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

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