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...that those responsible for the Confidential Guide don't realize how shocking and vile it is to write this way in this country about a Black professor's course on a Black society? Or is it that they don't care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confi-Guide Is Racist | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

Even so, the federal statute has been used to score some noticeable gains against merchants who deal in everything from "bongs" (water pipes for marijuana) to the spoons used to shovel cocaine into a user's nostrils. One such businessman, Stephen Pesce, is essentially a vile version of a Horatio Alger hero. Pesce, now 34, apparently made pot pipes as a teenager in the 1970s for a Long Island, N.Y., paraphernalia distributor now known as Main Street. He eventually took charge and built the business into one of the largest head-shop suppliers in the U.S., grossing more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountains Of Vile Vials | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...letter's five co-authors were quite piqued by the accolade I gave to a recent dining hall meal. First of all, they wrote, the offering was "vile." They also urged The Crimson to end such idle reporting and engage in more probing analyses "in the spirit of Woodward and Bernstein...

Author: By Adam L. Berger, | Title: Dining Hall-Gate | 11/2/1989 | See Source »

...table we were sitting at returned something less than an "overwhelming verdict" of "kudos to HDS." We found the vegetarian hamburger to be, frankly, vile. We were amazed at HDS' lame attempt to improvise a new menu item. We compared it unfavorably to other emetics frequently served in our dining halls, such as broccoli-cheese pasta and vegetable stromboli. If Mr. Berger turns out to be partial to these dishes too, we would not dream of denying him the right to his opinion. We would, however, deny him the right to speak for the general undergraduate population, which we believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McVeggie | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Harvard's attitude is a condescending and troubling one. In effect, it says to MIT that "we're too high and mighty to sully ourselves with such a vile institution as ROTC, but as long you're willing to prostitute yourself, we'll send our ROTC students over to you and thereby keep ourselves pure...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: ROTC's Already Here | 4/29/1989 | See Source »

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