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...feeling of superiority over their classmates that matters, not actually considering anyone’s wellbeing. And who can blame them? It’s not as if they have to pay their way through college or anything. Now they can go to Chipotle and inveigh against the world over a six-dollar burrito...

Author: By Sahand Moarefy | Title: The Passion of Idiots | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...inveigh against rap music, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton. Don?t you worry about being called a racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Galley Girl: Questions for Bernard Goldberg | 7/14/2005 | See Source »

...York State legislature in early March. It mirrors efforts on the national level by Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder to outlaw such mutilation. Says she: "It's terribly important to do so if we're going to preach on this issue in the international community." Yet even as American feminists inveigh against the practice, African professional women in the U.S. decry these protests as arrogant and misguided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Risk of Mutilation | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...lightly, without compulsions of any kind? Then there's TV, the addiction whose name we can hardly speak -- the poor man's virtual reality, the substance-free citizen's 24-hour-a-day hallucinatory trip. No bleary-eyed tube addict, emerging from weekend-long catatonia, has the right to inveigh against "drugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kicking the Big One | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

...some ways the growth of interest groups is healthy. Capitol Hill at times seems like a huge First Amendment jamboree, where Americans of all persuasions clamor to be heard. Movie stars plead on behalf of disease prevention, Catholic clerics inveigh against abortion, farmers in overalls ask for extended credit, Wall Street financiers extol the virtues of lower capital-gains taxes. No single group dominates. When the steel, auto and rubber industries saw the Reagan Administration as an opening to weaken the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the "Green Lobby," a coalition of environmental groups, was able to stop them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peddling Influence | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

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