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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...included a flatulent horse, a fight between grandparents, and enough spots for impotence medications to raise the Titanic. (The raciest ad I found in my old copy of Playboy was for satin bed sheets and pillowcases, "as used in the Imperial and Bridal Suites of the Conrad Hilton.") And lest you think there's something special about football that encourages vulgarity, USA Today last week had a front-page story on the troubles that colleges are having with cursing at basketball games. University of Maryland coach Gary Williams has been forced to appeal for more decorous behavior from fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Uses of Civility | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...imagined and may no longer be able to write his own exit lines. And they revived plans, long abandoned, of a badly needed reform of the nation's numerous, mysterious, overlapping and often quarrelsome intelligence agencies. Bush had shelved the idea of a massive, one-time overhaul after 9/11, lest the undertaking distract the nation's spooks from their job of protecting the country from further calamity. But if the resulting work has not been effective, as Kay's findings suggest, there's little reason to put off a fix much longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: So Much For The WMD | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

Kirshner, who teaches the popular Science A-35, “Matter in the Universe,” encouraged Quincy House residents to attend yesterday afternoon’s ribbon-cutting ceremony lest they succumb to what he calls “Newton’s Law of Inertia...

Author: By Elena Sorokin and Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Renovated Quincy Gym Opens | 2/5/2004 | See Source »

...whole world takes America's charity," he says, "and that money is created through entrepreneurs." Survivor, with its tension between group effort and look-out-for-number-onemanship, has always been a metaphor for the corporate jungle. The Apprentice uses the business world as a metaphor for that metaphor. (Lest anyone miss the comparison, Trump says ad nauseam on the show and in our interview that New York City is "the real jungle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Art Of The Real | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

...hunting season right now, and mid-year graduates are about to get their diplomas. This strange Harvardian quirk, the A.B., for artis baccaluareus, according to the Registrar, does not go unnoticed. Applying for journalism jobs, I’ve always been hesitant to write A.B. lest some employer think that I’ve made some careless typo...

Author: By Nikki Usher, NIKKI B. USHER | Title: Making Diplomas Modern | 1/9/2004 | See Source »

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