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...magical slippery scales. The fish range in size from one to two feet long, and although they are fed daily, they appreciate dining hall treats--not to mention the occasional suck on a meaty finger or toe. But have no fear, unlike the students at the business school, these toothless fish are not of the piranha persuasion...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: something FISHY | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...Iraqi army, he quotes a U.S. official in an Iraqi POW camps saying "We were looking for warriors. Here we got these wimps." All the same, Fritz's summary of the war against Iraqis is sickening in its glorification of the brutality exercised on what he admits to be toothless Iraqi military: "The mission was proof of the last superpower's capacity to halt catastrophe when it summoned the sufficient courage...At no time in history had one ideology and one nation been given such a clear path to influencing the flow of historic events, to halting evil...

Author: By Eric Beach, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Huddled Masses of the 20th Century | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...Toothless seniors in Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Mar. 29, 1999 | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Even after agreeing to ensure fair wages for its workers--even in the face of strong national momentum toward a code--Harvard and the rest of the Ivy League are posed this week to adopt the toothless, industry-approved, Apparel Industry Task Force (AIP) code that includes none of these provisions. Phillips-Van Heusen, one of the main proponents of this pitiful code, closed the only unionized plant in Guatemala last December soon after that code was announced--a good indication of the behavior we can expect from factories adhering to the industry code...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, | Title: The New Student Activism | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

...against Iraq. China has long called for a lifting of the embargo to ensure an uninterrupted flow of imported oil. Lawmakers in Moscow too muttered darkly about unilateral removal of trade restrictions. Even if sanctions survive, there's no guarantee that Saddam will become less dangerous, just as a toothless UNSCOM didn't keep him in check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Did It Do? | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

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