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...wealthiest and most exclusive institutions in the world, Mr. Grossman insists it is the Clubs' display of similar attributes that offends his moral sensibilities. He is not alone in this apparent contradiction. It is striking how many Harvard-Radcliffe students share his need to pay lip service to anti-elitism. Something about the times has persuaded large numbers of otherwise sensible people that the right and proper price for privilege (earned or unearned) is guilt, and that one's guiltiness can be simultaneously displayed and exorcised by public opposition to anything labeled elitist. (Fortunately, few Harvard-Radcliffe students actually feel...
...explain that men who use chewing tobacco suffer higher incidents of lip and gum cancer...
After years of paying lip service to balanced budgets while racking up annual deficits approaching $200 billion, Congress and the White House have finally decided to fit themselves with a fiscal straitjacket. The bill, sponsored by Senate Republicans Phil Gramm of Texas and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire and by Democrat Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, compels Congress to vote to balance the budget within five years or face automatic cuts. "What % this bill does is put the fat in the fire," declared Gramm. "It forces decisions." Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, however, likened Congressmen voting for the bill...
First, they found a virus that would cause permanent, visible bodily damage, lip lesions, not so much a Scarlet A as a Rosy Period...
...real Lazure has a strong accent, immediately conspicuous to the Montreal ear. To patch this up, her lines have been dubbed by a monotoned off-screen actress whose voice doesn't at all sound like it comes from Lazure's body. Plainly, a huge fault, especially when the lip-sync falters in a key fight scene...