Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American duality of hipness vs. squareness. The words have changed over time--coolness vs. geekiness, fly vs. fool--but the concept is as venerable as the separation between church and state. Growing up, every American boy has to figure out whether he wants to be like Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, Mickey Mantle or Roger Maris, Dennis Rodman or Michael Jordan, John Lennon or Paul McCartney...
...Tom B. Cotton '98 is a government concentrator in Adams House. This is his last column...
...Tom Cannata, a 43-year-old accountant from Springfield, Mass., has been taking Viagra for the past three years as a trial subject. He was suffering from partial impotence brought on, he believes, by years of bicycle riding (an activity, it should be noted, that is not universally held to be a cause of impotence). Cannata was able to achieve erections but felt that they "should have been stronger and much longer-lasting." Viagra worked for him the first time and has worked ever since. "Not only is the frequency of our sex greater," he says...
...acre project in Jefferson County, where wildlife agents set traps last summer seeking jumping mice. They caught no Preble's but did get 218 other mice and one rattlesnake. "It's ridiculous to protect the animal when no one can even seem to find it," says Lacy. Tom Taylor, a Colorado Springs builder, concurs: "What's the population count? Are they really more endangered now than they used to be? Who is to say?" Taylor had to spend four months redesigning a construction project after four Preble's mice were found on his land...
...Washington as a bunch of clueless and irrelevant bureaucrats, now has his own team of spin cyclists whirring into high gear. Redmond's roster boasts ex-Republican National Committee chairman and renowned spinmeister Haley Barbour, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Webber (a Newt Gingrich confidant) and former New Jersey Congressman Tom Downey (an Al Gore confidant). Edelman Worldwide, in the person of Reagan-era imagemaker Mike Deaver, is handling the company's overall Washington p.r. effort...