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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Being a Zionist has never been easy. It means having to constantly repeat the obvious without sounding shrill or tedious...

Author: By Jonathan H. Esensten, | Title: Let's Repeat the Obvious on Israel | 3/5/2003 | See Source »

...entire campaign to force Augusta National Golf Club into admitting female members is absurd. Augusta is a private club, and is thus free to craft whatever membership policies it chooses. The Staff’s shrill complaints are misguided and irritating: people should be free to associate with whomever they choose without obnoxious criticism from newspaper editors...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: A Round With the Members | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...turn to wear the dunce cap, but this time around the disdain feels particularly shrill and personal. According to their enemies, SUV drivers aren't just road hogs; they're also sociopaths who are overcompensating for deep-seated feelings of inferiority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I Luv My SUV | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

...monument, and the appropriate significance of a memorial. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design Richard M. Sommer has called the entire process “a form of public therapy.” It is also a form of requiem, New York-style. It is loud and shrill and full of invective as well as praise...

Author: By Toshiko Mori, | Title: New Yorkers Look to the Skyline | 2/18/2003 | See Source »

...face--very dangerous--and they threaten to make the Security Council irrelevant. If France abstains, it's not a player. If it votes yes, Chirac looks like a weather vane." Small wonder that, according to several sources, French Foreign Minister de Villepin was openly agitated--"shrill," said one observer--at the meetings in New York last week. ("All you talk about is war. That's all you want to talk about," de Villepin said to Powell at a lunch after his speech.) But if Blix returns from Baghdad with a report damning Saddam, he will give the French a ladder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Diplomacy and Deployment: Countdown To War | 2/17/2003 | See Source »

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