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...Don’t gawk while you’re in Sigma Chi’s stately house...hmm...[snicker...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen handy tips for punch/rush season | 10/16/2003 | See Source »

...importance of learning languages in today’s international climate. Long before Sept. 11 and the war on Iraq, Americans were frequently perceived abroad as ill-educated boors who cared next-to-nothing about anything beyond their borders. At school in England, my friends would often snicker about the Americans with their backpacks and sneakers who pass through foreign cities, taking plenty of photographs but understanding (and learning) next-to-nothing about the countries they visited. The European view of President Bush as a gun-slinging cowboy running roughshod over the international community was a convenient extension of that...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: Plus Ça Change | 10/15/2003 | See Source »

...speech was dead serious, and without lapses into the occasional I'm-looking-at-you-seriously-now furrow. It did not contain a single wisecrack; Bush stowed his famous snicker even during the entry glad-handing. He was a long way from the president who joked about his legitimacy in his first visit to that well of the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Makes a Strong Case on Iraq | 1/28/2003 | See Source »

...recall attending just one soccer game, the last of the season in his senior year, arriving just as Eliot was called for a penalty. "Free kick, they lost," his father says with a laugh. The parents concentrated on their children's intellectual side--in ways that made their friends snicker. One of the kids--Spitzer is the youngest of three--would be made responsible for leading a dinner discussion on a topic of the day. When they traveled, they would test the kids on what they were seeing. The Spitzers also attempted to impart a sense of compassion. "We tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eliot Spitzer: Wall Street's Top Cop | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

While the presence of such extremists on campus will provide a convenient caricature of the religious right for us to snicker at, it also forces us towards a more serious evaluation of just how far we are willing to go in opposing homophobia. Even though WBC may be a bunch of deranged yahoos, the ban on offensive speech remains a bad idea. Although we may have trouble articulating where we draw the line, the fact is that most of us have at least drawn...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, | Title: Homophobia in God's Name | 12/12/2002 | See Source »

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