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When he isn't feeling superior to his surroundings, McCourt suffers brief spasms of unworthiness. There are his infected eyes, "like two pissholes in the snow," a phrase he likes so much that he repeats it many, many times. Another thoroughly used favorite is "not giving a fiddler's fart." Reading this book can push you to just that point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frank's Ashes | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Many of us at Harvard are finely honed specialists at whatever craft we practice. We are here in part because we became experts in our respective fields. We have become giants in one part of our lives, while other personal traits clamor for attention like the seven dwarves around Snow White...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Stepping to Success | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...Clinton Administration will never admit that this is its policy. But it is. Which is one of the reasons the debate about intervention is so muddied and confused. Everyone is throwing around moralistic cliches, including an Administration that wants to portray itself as pure as snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Humanitarianism | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...unlike a snow storm or a blizzard or a hurricane," Rogers said...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Officials Seek to Reassure Public on Y2K | 9/22/1999 | See Source »

...They really made a mess. They injured and killed trees putting down fake snow," Wrinn says...

Author: By Nathaniel L. Schwartz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University, Hollywood Relationship Not Always a 'Love Story' | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

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