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...only shudder when I imagine how many Muslims, Croats and, yes, even Serbs are wondering how much more "shooting back" must continue until America and its allies--composed of people like you and me--wakes up from its murderous slumber. Dominique Padurano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Remembering is Not Always Enough | 4/30/1993 | See Source »

...took David Hume's assault on the a priori view of causality to a waken Immanuel Kant from his "dogmatic slumber" on the issue of the a priori nature of all metaphysics. Similarly, though perhaps less monumentally, it took the recent controversy between Professor Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. and Zaheer R. Ali '94, president of the Black Students Association, on the origin of grade inflation to awaken me from my own dogmatic slumber on the issue of affirmative action...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: A Much-Needed Awakening | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

...need to reevaluate the justice of the very principle of affirmative action, in addition to the discrepancies between such a noble principle" and its messy enforcement. Likewise, we should all awaken from our doginatic Slumber, on this crucial issue that somehow remains taboo...

Author: By Brad EDWARD White, | Title: A Much-Needed Awakening | 3/17/1993 | See Source »

...first period was a laugh, offensively, with penalties and icing goals marring any kind of rhythm from developing for both teams. Not even 1:17 of 4-on-3 power-action could rouse the Crimson forwards from their prolonged slumber...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Icemen Can't Handle Big Green, 4-3 | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

...faulty; Jackson's life has never been normal. For a celebrity of his magnitude, to be seen is to be smothered, to be loved is to be abused, to be a star is to be a freak. His childhood story is as poignant for what he says he missed ("slumber parties") as it is pathetic for what he endured. During rehearsals, he recalled, he would look out and "see all the children playing . . . and it would make me cry." Before a tour of South America, "I hid, and I was crying while I was hiding, because I did not want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peter Pan Speaks | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

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