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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...august leadership so rapt with the idea of its own Parliamentary Sovereignty that it couldn't care less about student opinion? After all, when the council's only sins were bumbling and incompetence, most students couldn't have cared less about them. But the insolent and smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide into irrelevance and raise the ire of heretofore (justifiably) uninterested students. The council can surely expect a jump in refund requests next semester; and, thankfully, Gabay, unlike his autocratic mentor in Kigali, has no well-armed Presidential...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...bogus issue. Only an increased emphasis on teaching will really improve the lives of undergraduates at Harvard. Juggling vacation dates is merely a convenient way to hide from dealing with the real issues at stake. The council is excited about the wrong cause; the administration is entirely too smug...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: Judgment Daze | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...needless to say, there would be no "Zoe Baird problem." I was among those people who had spent the early months of 1993 feeling mighty smug because I have always paid the Social Security tax for my once-a-week cleaning lady and have the paperwork to prove it. This second demonstration of my job- creating prowess would not be allowed to mar that record. Anyway, the paperwork would not be my problem. What are assistants for, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Failed Jobs Program | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...think we have made considerable advances in the last year, but there's still a long way to go," Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in an interview yesterday. "We should neither be said nor smug...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: `Progress' Seen In Affirmative Action Hiring | 3/25/1994 | See Source »

...have never heard of are going to plan their Saturday evenings entirely based on what you have to say. You could be responsible, in large part, for the success or failure of an incredibly large number of first dates. You have a tremendous amount of power. So feel smug...

Author: By Jeremy A. Dauber, | Title: So, You Wanna Be a Critic? | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

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