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What gives these whining students the chutzpah to claim the University as their own? They have been admitted here--God knows why--by the Admissions Committee, just like everyone else (I'm assuming). They think of themselves as grass-roots conservatives with a monopoly on truth, justice and the American...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Naming Names: Peninsula's Fascists | 10/15/1996 | See Source »

We have to start thinking of America as a family. We have to stop screeching at each other, stop hurting each other, and instead start caring for, sacrificing for and sharing with each other. We have to stop constantly criticizing, which is the way of the malcontent, and instead get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY AMERICAN JOURNEY: Colin Powell | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

White quit or was fired in 1946, after complaining of distortions of his copy from China -- much of it by his New York editor, the former communist turned zealous communist hater Whittaker Chambers. White had also given the wrong answer to Luce's question, Will you accept any assignment I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: WHEN HARRY LUCE MET TEDDY WHITE | 4/17/1995 | See Source »

Although Amanda C. Pustilnik seems to have presented an objective view of Transcendental Meditation (TM) in the recent Crimson article (Wednesday, October 27), I cannot help feeling that TM will look upon this article with favor--certainly as anything but "bad press." But for the occasional words of a TM...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beware Cults That Recruit at Harvard | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

Meet the new, cooperative, user-friendly David Letterman. At NBC, Letterman was a notorious malcontent, getting upset over real and perceived network slights, like a cost-saving proposal that he share studio space with The Maury Povich Show. At CBS he has schmoozed with affiliates, had nothing but kind words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Letterman: New Dave Dawning | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

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