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Keeping incidents quiet provides an offender with a second chance, an opportunity to repent and mend his ways without attracting the scorn of the rest of the student body. Finally, the unavailability of "dirt" on other students ensures that political campaigns and heated debates do not sink beyond a certain level of decency. What do you think the U.C. presidential election would look like if, say, Randall A. Fine '96 had access to potentially embarrassing information about his opponents' pasts...
...major frustration is coming from the Senate, where even some Republicans view much of the contract with disdain. Henry Waxman, a liberal Democratic Congressman from California, smiles at the mention of that reviled institution (House members generally refer to it with scorn as the Other Body). "The Senate?" Waxman said. "A wonderful place. Very deliberative body. Thoughtful people." Fresh from defeating the balanced-budget amendment, Senate Democrats, backed by some Republicans, are preparing to dismantle the next item from the House G.O.P.'s contract: the line-item veto. Senate leaders hope to take it up this week, but the bill...
...some soulless colony of technocrats as in a kind of cultural Brigadoon -- a flowering remnant of the '60s, when hippie communalism and libertarian politics formed the roots of the modern cyberrevolution. At the time, it all seemed dangerously anarchic (and still does to many), but the counterculture's scorn for centralized authority provided the philosophical foundations of not only the leaderless Internet but also the entire personal- computer revolution...
...been doing E-money for e-ons, ever since automated-teller machines.'' Joe says, with just the right edge of scorn...
...Meanwhile, she is a determined missionary as she rattles on about getting in touch with ``the essential self.'' Confronted with one of his respectable female friends, she asks, ``Have you considered Colour Counselling?'' When George makes an ironic reference to ``the child inside you,'' Katy corrects him with the scorn of a strict catechist: ``Within...