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...Should I buy, say, an energy-efficient air-conditioner to suppress demand for Big Oil and save the environment? A Palm Pilot, to help restore hope to the tech sector? If I tell my cable company I want all the channels for six months, perhaps I can speed the maturation of broadband and help my employer meet its 3Q estimates (and maybe give those stock options a boost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Spent My Summer Tax Rebate Check | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

...charged that Kissinger “has repeatedly sought to suppress the publication of books he believes will be unfriendly to him.” He also accuses Kissinger of consistently evading critics...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kissinger Appearance Draws Controversy | 7/6/2001 | See Source »

...There's very little evidence. But there isn't any question that we should be restrained. When you look at Paramount [Viacom's movie studio], Saving Private Ryan was certainly violent. But what kind of violence should we suppress? It's not so easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A (Sumner Redstone) | 6/11/2001 | See Source »

...University, the kind of commitment that keeps a librarian behind the same reference desk for a quarter century, the kind of commitment that is pretty hard to come by these days. I’m no fan of the Progressive Student Labor Movement, but I couldn’t suppress the percolating wellspring of ironic indignation within my chest when the president spoke of the rarity of such service. Security guards and custodians, young Turks who age into sparkling-eyed old men after a lifetime helping fancy Harvard kids, are an endangered species around here—not because it?...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Happy New Year | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

...tricky to spin that into a success, even with the considerable level of endorphins in my blood right now. When the moment of truth comes, I am pleasantly surprised. I have to follow the list up from the bottom several names (five) before I come to mine. Wow. I suppress a public victory whoop (I came in 40th! I came in 40th!) knowing that it would not be appropriate in the dead-serious atmosphere surrounding the results board. I save my reactions for later, quietly absorbing my place (and the places of my teammates) before moving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fool on the Hill | 5/10/2001 | See Source »

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