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What's more, this particular troublemaker seems a travesty of the great-man theory of history and an insult to the modern world's sense of itself. Just when we were getting serious about the 21st century, along comes this atavistic menace. With his 1930s brand of aggression and his medieval tirades, Saddam Hussein has succeeded beyond his dreams and our nightmares in tying our lives in knots. Even if he can't get us with his Scuds, we're in range of his terrorist "commandos." And a Saddam recession, if not depression, may be with us longer than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Villain's Advantage | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...Crimson can be thankful for one thing--Terriers forward Tony Amonte's one tally was not shorthanded. Last year, adding major insult to injury, the sophomore forward burned Harvard for a goal when B.U. was skating only three...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz and John B. Roberts, S | Title: More Gloomy News For Icemen: Weisbrod Will Have Surgery | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

...here as well. As future colleagues, we paid their way here in order to share, not to "help" or "be helped." What is a pity is that fledgling efforts at international communication can be so easily subverted by reporterial inattention. Our guests were polite enough not to mention the insult. Your paper must. Nathanial Hupert '87-'88 Zoltan Arany '89 James Morris Andrea Cheville Mike Murphy Carey Farquhar Peter Nigrovic Melissa Gilliam Curtis Page Bill Grobman Sara Szal Matt Menard Caroline Tsen Jose Morales Jessica Wu Czechoslovak Project

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mutual Understanding, Not Pity | 2/7/1991 | See Source »

...field's chief groundskeeper, are dissatisfied with life. The secretary cheats on her husband with Gravely, and the groundskeeper is an alcoholic. The townspeople who harass Gravely must have pathetic lives or they would not be calling the coach in the middle of the night solely to insult his wife...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Distinctly Southern Melancholy | 12/13/1990 | See Source »

Others say the strategy is working. Sandi Dubowski '92 has no difficulty reeling off a list of once derogatory terms used to describe some gays and lesbians, from "salsa sisters" to the "S&M community." He says that he can't think of any word that would insult...

Author: By Veronica Rosales, | Title: What's in a Name? | 12/7/1990 | See Source »

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