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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Stated another way, Peninsula writers are smart, while Inside Edge writers are stupid. Yet that's not quite right; the Harvard juniors behind Inside Edge aren't truly insipid. They're just acting stupid--because that's the way they think they're supposed...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Not Thinking. Just Kidding. | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

...kind of dishonesty, and I feel awful about it now. But that's the driving force behind the contents of Inside Edge. Its editors are trying not to look like total geeks--and to them, being smart is being geeky. So when they write copy, they pretend to be stupid...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Not Thinking. Just Kidding. | 6/9/1993 | See Source »

...undervalued these days but it is ultimately more important than charm. For a while it might be funny to see the President blow his horn on Arsenio, for the Senate Minority Leader to trade gags with Jay Leno. We might even come to enjoy seeing Al Gore doing a "stupid human trick" on Late Night with David Letterman...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Live From Burbank--Your Leaders | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

...Dirks, Pearl Harbor's import didn't hit until the men started disappearing. "I was pretty stupid about the war," says Dirks. "Pearl Harbor didn't register for a while. I was going to a Law School dance that night. And then suddenly it registered, because the place was devoid of men, and some of them were dying...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: The Last Dance | 6/8/1993 | See Source »

...Political Interest: It's the Job, Stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/31/1993 | See Source »

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