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...entertainment conglomerates are fond of invoking the First Amendment. That's because there's precious little excuse for what they've been up to the past 20 years. We've worked so long and hard at making audiences dumber, they have actually become dumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOUGH TALK ON ENTERTAINMENT | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...difficult it has been, in this land of the sentimental and the dramatic, to grapple with the forms of unmerited harm and undeserved pain," West said." If we don't come to terms with the problem of evil, then this precarious and precious experiment with democracy cannot stay afloat...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Cornel West Says U.S. Democracy Is in Crisis | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...hammered home that every single space in the class is precious," he says...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Jewett Leaves Deanship in Wake of Randomization Decision | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...teddy as evidence that he both purchased the undergarment and then removed it. The actual sex is so clichad and vulgar that a high school sophomore would be turned off, and the juicy parts can be read standing up at the store: intimate organs have names like Willard and Precious (p. 71); the act involved, at times, mascara, blusher, blindfolds and honey (pp. 71-75). Hillary was vastly inferior to Flowers in every department, especially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX SCANDALS WILT LIKE FLOWERS | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

Finding a senior thesis advisor for my topic was not a simple endeavor. Some of the professors I consulted had written about voter participation or the empirical process of redistricting, but precious few were engaged in current research about minority politics or representation. At the time I was seeking a thesis advisor, Thomson Professor of Government Martin L. Kilson, the lone Black tenured professor in the department, was the only scholar listed as a specialist in minority politics...

Author: By Kareem U. Crayton, | Title: It's A Matter of Color | 5/24/1995 | See Source »

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