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GENERATION Y Burned and pillaged Woodstock '99, giving boomers one more thing to be smug about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Aug. 9, 1999 | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...pocket novel called The State I Am In. And so I gave myself to God, there was a pregnant pause before he said OK. Now I spend my days turning tables round in Marks & Spencer's, they don't seem to mind." The narrator is less whiny than smug to point out his faults and the faults of others. Further, this album creates a closed circuit of a world. The last track references the first (It finds a young girl reading the book, The State...

Author: By Luke Z. Fenchel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Great Expectations: B&S Release a Prequel | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...bill on the counter, and so do I--one of those postmodern-ethics moments when neither of us can accept the other's hospitality. He gives me half of his deep-dish pizza, having made the better choice. Sure, he's pleased with himself. But unlike a lot of smug pols, at least he has some reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rudy's Playground | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...worried the U.S. may have a distinct advantage at producing superior agricultural and meat products,? he says, ?and that they will lose a big market share.? The latest Agricultural Department move is unlikely to soften European opposition immediately. But at the very least, it promises to expose the smug confidence of many biotech proponents to the fresh air of some independent analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Tinkered Tomatoes Give You Tumors? | 7/14/1999 | See Source »

...other had, it's pretty clear it didn'tchange Harvard," he adds. "Harvard is, from what Ican tell, pretty much the way it's alwaysbeen--smug...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Inside University Hall, Kilbreths Debated, Waited for Police to Move In | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

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