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...Rome, what is up with this guy? What the hell is he thinking? 'I think I am going to insult my entire franchise by letting some guy write--errrrrr--by writing a book about my mediocre rookie year. I think I am going to call my quarterback--the only guy on the team that can get me the ball--a racist, thereby ensuring that I will get the ball even less. I think I will also speak out about my franchise when Bill Parcells is coming in to be the new coach...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...much more complex than this. The statement made by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that "we have organic chemicals mixed into a bath of water. That's a recipe for life" is absurd. The idea that a chemical cocktail stimulated by heat will produce biological life is an insult to science and those who work in the various fields of biology. I suggest that intelligent and fully ordered life such as we have on Earth is not the result of mere chance, but the product of an intelligent Creator. PHILIP BENNETT Belfast, Northern Ireland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 12, 1997 | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...hard to say now with any real assurance, but it may be that this galling half success, the insult of being known but not well known, may have been too much for a prideful man. Last Dec. 7, some time after A Matter of Honor had been sent to the publisher--and been accepted--Izzi's body, wearing a bullet-proof vest, was found hanging outside the window of his 14th-floor office above Chicago's Loop. The rope slip-knotted around the corpse's neck passed back through the window, and was tied to the leg of a desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ALL LOST, SAVE HONOR | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

...insult to injury this week, or in this case, injury to insult, the already struggling Crimson offense lost its star attackman, junior Mike Ferrucci, with a torn ACL against UMass on Wednesday. The injury will likely side-line him for the rest of the season...

Author: By Chris W.mcevoy, | Title: M. Lax Blasts Yale | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

...most disturbing aspects of the ongoing debate because it merely serves to continue the condescension and disrespect endured by all people of color. This paternalistic attitude has at its roots the idea that "You people don't know what you're talking about," and the further insult, "You do not even know your own emotions...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Name Game | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

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