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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have no illusions about the "justice" of the American democratic process, and I'm sure not many others do, either. But we can't let ourselves take the easy way out and throw up our hands. Like it or not, government is a indispensable part of our lives. And it's up to us to take charge of the system, instead of letting it take charge of us. If we don't, our cynicism will remain as proof of our own complicity. Rather than blaming the system, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves...

Author: By Allen C. Soong, | Title: The View From a Senatorial Mailroom | 9/22/1993 | See Source »

Nevertheless, if Harvard fails to throw off the wet blanket under which it slept for its first two games, it could mean an early bedtime for the Crimson and not so pleasant dreams...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Wet Start for Stickwomen | 9/21/1993 | See Source »

...daughter. Erin's ex-husband Darrell is a lowlife so inept that he boosts wheelchairs, not cars, for a living. Congressman Dilbeck (the poor man's Wilbur Mills) becomes as obsessed with Erin as the sugar lobby is with keeping this drunken buffoon of a subcommittee chairman in office. Throw in a few dead bodies, and Hiaasen's morality play is off and running like a frisky Congressman on a bender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House Rules | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...final bell hasn't sounded. And even with some alumni and faculty ready to throw in the towel, Harvard's money men may have a few strong jabs left...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: For Meyer and Friends, A Good Year at Last | 9/17/1993 | See Source »

...much of their show, Beavis and Butthead are themselves MTV viewers. They mindlessly watch videos, and they snicker. Like this: "ehehehehehehe." Or sometimes like this: "hehehehehe." Occassionally, one or the other will say that the video "sucks." Sometimes, they'll throw in a vaguely misogynistic comment about a woman appearing in the video. Other times, they'll do something terribly cruel to an animal...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Beavis Generation | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

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