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...contrast, the general opinion of the student body, the pulse of the campus, or whatever you want to call it—to the extent it can be measured—should be taken with about a pound of salt, and perhaps even considered a reverse barometer of the right course...
...with North Korea to stall its nuclear program, who tossed some bombs on Iraq and walked away, merely postponed the inevitable while making things worse. What was swept under the rug, the hawks say, we are now pulling out and confronting, with an ounce of prevention if possible, a pound of cure if we must...
...just a motorcycle issue," warns a senior Japanese official. "People everywhere are watching closely to see whether Vietnam is really committed to opening up to investment." Even a safety advocate like Craft is mystified as to what Hanoi hopes to achieve, "They're playing with an 8,000-pound gorilla here, and it's giving Vietnam's reputation such a black eye. Why piss off Japan...
Among other suggestions, he proposed turning the Lampoon building into a dog pound. He later passed a proposal through the Cambridge City Council that declared the Lampoon a public urinal...
...We’re still going to make fun of Yale. We’re still going to have plenty of anti-Yale hate,” Krych said. “But we’re not necessarily every year going to pound the same traditional stereotypes about rednecks from Ithaca going to Cornell...