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...insult to those of us who have forced over $80,000 for the honor of the Veritas stamp was compounded by the fact that Dr. Mack's particular appearance was calculated to give a veneer of respectability to tales of alien abduction. Alien abduction, the one canard of vacuous day-time info-tainment that not even its trailer-park-bound viewership beats with a straight face...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/23/1994 | See Source »

Davis called the charges "an insult to theintelligence of Harvard students to say that theycan't read five questions and say they want avote...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Panel Debates U.C.'s Proposed Term Bill Hike | 4/19/1994 | See Source »

...they cannot erase the stigma. Smoking is seen, and smelled, as an insult to civilization. It is also one of the few insults that civilization can forcefully address. The mannerly middle class may not be able to outlaw assault weapons or rap music or violent movies, but it can shove smokers (usually the working class, the minorities and the young) into the pariah class, right next to the serial killers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's All the Fuming About? | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...that it is not as aesthetically pleasing as the other dorms, like Weld or Matthews. And it is true, that at first glance, there is somewhat of a solemn and desolate look to Canaday. But I would hardly go so far as to say that my dorm is "an insult to the educated mind." Nor would I agree with O'Shea that it is "cheerless...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: A Place to Call Home | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

...insult to injury, depriving the public of the ability to read certain, free publications paternalistically assumes that readers are not intelligent enough to come to the right conclusions on their own. Those who prevent others from reading a free publication act as censors precisely because they assume that they have the greater moral and intellectual insight to discern the good ideas from the bad ones, and that they have the right to impose this understanding on others...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: The Paper Thieves | 4/12/1994 | See Source »

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