Word: matters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...qualms about presenting it," he says. "The people were wrong. It didn't matter what they thought about Vietnam. What was wrong was the attack on the University...
...sets he constructs have to be simple enough to load into a theater in a matter of hours and sturdy enough to travel cross-country in the back of a truck...
Stupidity is one of my favorite subjects. "It is always amazing," Jean Cocteau wrote, "no matter how often one encounters it." Like sleep, stupidity is a universal, surreal and mysterious phenomenon, a brownout, the mind passing through a tunnel. Sometimes stupidity is hilarious; most of the world's jokes are told by one ethnic group about the stupidity of another ethnic group. In its sinister forms, stupidity turns up as evil's incompetent half brother--evil without supernatural prestige. The "Evil Empire" was, in a more practical sense, the stupid empire; systemic stupidity, not evil or good, brought the Soviet...
...rest of life, serious sexual harassment usually cannot be handled by a child acting alone. If your daughter tells you she is being sexually bullied, first of all believe her. She has already done the hardest thing by coming to you. Go to the school and discuss the matter with your child's teachers and administrators, and follow up in writing...
...saying that com stocks had hit bottom. Nerves still frayed? Salomon Smith Barney just introduced a bond (pegged to thestreet.com's Net index) that lets you play the Net game with a little peace of mind. Minimum redemption upon maturity in 2006 is $9 on the $10 note, no matter how far the index drops. The flip side: if the bond is called in 2005, returns...