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...think about it. The handshake is expected and is executed automatically in a ritual little babble of nicetomeetyouhowdoyoudo? If you had an attack of fastidiousness and refused to shake someone's extended hand, then the handshake would become an awkwardness and an issue, a refusal being an outright insult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pressing the Germy Flesh | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Minnie Phillips is bracing for her first-period 10th-grade English students. She always has them at 7:30 a.m., a launch time that is an insult to the teenage metabolism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monday: 7:30 A.M. English Class | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...Browns are not good. This is an accepted fact of life. Nevertheless, I don't think there's any need to insult them with a spread of 17.5. I'm going to pick the Browns to redeem themselves, at the expense of the JAGUARS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Top of the Covers | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...rubes. As I watched this scene in my hometown, I think I knew who was being slickered. Next day a high school friend, Yvonne Schildberg, a Republican activist, told me, "I went to be polite. I'm for Elizabeth Dole." Another friend said, "This straw poll is really an insult to anyone's intelligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Vote for Forbes And Get a Gold Pin | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

Morgan called the selection of Greenspan as speaker "a slap in the face for everyone. It's an insult to everyone here because this is what Harvard thinks is a model Commencement Address speaker...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS O malley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Graduates Protest Greenspan Speech | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

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