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Having strange and meaningless names on our buildings is a small price to pay for free buildings--although it does open us up to practical jokers such as a certain Mr. Jones who allegedly donated a building under the name "Wigglesworth" because of an aggravating sense of humor...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Immortal Fame For You | 3/19/1987 | See Source »

...emulating had their soundtracks specially superimposed upon their make-believe lifestyles. But you, poor thing, are cruising around with Papa Don't Preach strewing its irrelevant pop-Catholic message through your culturally-raped brain. Depersonalized top 40 is not the way to apply musical direction to a meaningless life...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Musical Madness | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

Student Four: I am the argumentative one. I have not done any of the reading so I argue every meaningless and vague point into the ground. I believe that this will cause the section leader to assume that I did the reading, and subconsciously hope that these annoying actions will somehow raise my status in terms of my classmates. I'm not very smart...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...something like. "Fah! Your words are open to blatant misunderstanding! Surely we must establish a common vocabulary if we can ever hope to fathom even a modicum of what Pope meant. That is to say, what he 'meant', what he MEANT, and-or what he "MEANT'! It is simply meaningless to go on unless common meanings are first established and maintained...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...higher price. Says Apolonio Flores of the San Antonio Housing Authority: "Some of our people are saying that they always wanted their kids to go to a nicer school, to live closer to their parents." But the rental markets in some cities are so tight that vouchers are meaningless. New York City, for example, has 200,000 applicants waiting for public housing. When vouchers were offered to low-income families there, 62% were returned unused: even with federal assistance, the families still could not find decent, affordable places to live. "The voucher system would make sense if there were housing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freedom Of Choice | 2/9/1987 | See Source »

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