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...hadn't already learned at home and in high school, perhaps it was the Eliot Spring Fete, the Hasty Pudding Ball, various faculty dinners or master's open houses that somehow taught me along the way what was socially correct behavior and what was inappropriate and rude. Evidently, a certain portion of the Harvard undergraduate population has yet to learn these lessons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hasty Pudding Disruptions | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

Find footnotes.Something about the thesis writer's predicament makes you feel rude if you do not consent to being their slave. "Problem? No problem. Are you kidding?" you say as you rummage through the stacks of Widener for the first time since Reading Period to find the all-important place of publication...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Unsung Heroes of the Thesis War | 3/7/1990 | See Source »

...Rude Americans...

Author: By John M. Bernard, | Title: Daughter of Malcolm X Speaks at Law School | 2/24/1990 | See Source »

...insulted here tonight when I was told not to speak out in favor of my constituents," Walsh said. "I think you were exceptionally rude to me, Madam Mayor [Alice K. Wolf] and Vice Mayor Reeves, when I was told that I shouldn't speak so much tonight...

Author: By Michael P. Mann, | Title: Walsh Acts to Disrupt Council | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

True, the ostensible reasons for the invasion were mostly phony: there was no danger to the canal; the White House itself had originally laughed off Noriega's "declaration of war"; Bush's flowery defense of American womanhood, based on a single murky episode of rude remarks, belongs in an operetta. True, Noriega's thuggery and drug connections didn't much bother anyone in the White House until Michael Dukakis (remember him?) decided to make an issue of them in 1988. True, the invasion will have no impact on the drug war anyway. True, there were less bloody ways to remove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Speak Softly and Carry a Cage | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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