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...friends to watch the fight. I tell them, go home, get rest, why do this now?...When a guy is with a girl, he’ll say ‘keep the change’ when other times he complains about how expensive things are...Sometimes students are rude. They throw money at me, so I throw the change back at them...

Author: By Ishani Ganguli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 10,000 Men of Harvard Tried to Use a Ladder To Steal the Grille Sign | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

...North Carolina in July bluntly summed up the situation: "We are meeting our speed of service standard only 46% of the time, and 3 out of 10 customers are waiting more than four minutes to complete their order. Our 800 number has confirmed that...the number of complaints...for rude service, unprofessional employees and inaccurate service has risen steadily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Shape Up? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...North Carolina in July bluntly summed up the situation: "We are meeting our speed of service standard only 46% of the time, and 3 out of 10 customers are waiting more than four minutes to complete their order. Our 800 number has confirmed that ... the number of complaints ... for rude service, unprofessional employees and inaccurate service has risen steadily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can McDonald's Shape Up? | 9/25/2002 | See Source »

...Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces. (Oyster describes Johnny Appleseed, who spread non-native plant life, as "a f______ biological terrorist.") All the while Carl struggles with his impulse to wipe out everybody in his path who annoys him. Because his path runs through barroom blowhards and rude librarians, to say nothing of Oyster, that's a lot of folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Few Words to Die By | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

...Ominously for mainstream parties, most of these leaders are fierce independents. "It may be rude to say it," observes Kitagawa, "but in the case of Chiba's Akiko Domoto, Nagano's Yasuo Tanaka, and myself as well, 'weirdos' became governor." Asano and Domoto both refused all party endorsements, yet won handily. Staying unattached and "weird" means freedom from the smoky backroom culture that is smothering Koizumi. Governor Asano wrote to candidate Domoto, "Please don't think of nonaffiliation as a means to gain advantage in the election. It's not a means; it's a policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Power | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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