Word: scarier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill Clinton and other hamburger-loving Americans, nothing could have been scarier. At the height of the barbecue season last August, more than a dozen people became seriously ill from ground beef contaminated by a virulent strain of bacteria known as E. coli 0157:H7, which was traced to a Columbus, Neb., processing plant. The incident prompted the nation's largest meat recall, a whopping 25 million lbs. of beef patties. It also brought a vow from gourmand Clinton to wage a major war for food safety...
...Wings of the Dove, of course, doesn't have any more chance of making $100 million dollars than Interview With the Vampire had of winning Academy Awards. Which is unfortunate, because of the two, The Wings of the Dove is the far superior--and scarier--vampire movie. Millie, unlike any character in Interview, is hugely sympathetic without being boring, so we are much more horrified by Kate's predatious approaches than we are by Lestat's. Also, as the film rolls on, Millie's skin whitens and her eyes sink back in her skull. We can literally see Kate...
Combine that with what has been an anemic Harvard offensive attack in recent years, and Cornell looms that much scarier...
...Harvard is Watching" described the student privacy issues raised by the university's technological infrastructure. Whether our illustrious deans are privy to our personal lives, I agree, is an important subject to broach. However, whether The Crimson will broadcast that same information to the public at large seems a scarier possibility...
Otherwise, as those hundreds of students at Indiana University can tell you, freedom of speech may turn out to be scarier than we think...