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...away with it," he said last week. "We're not going to be fooled by somebody who says one thing and absolutely does something else." It is as though Gore has become a stalking-horse for all those elitist liberals, the pantywaists and special pleaders who whine about rights and fairness from the comfort of their ivory towers and whom Bush has reviled since his days at Yale. And Bush has no time for liberal guilt, doesn't believe he should feel guilty at all for the advantages life has bestowed on him; when he says he inherited "half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Gore and Bush Think Of Each Other | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

After I read how George W. Bush won the South Carolina primary [CAMPAIGN 2000, Feb. 28], it was clear that John McCain's ads comparing Bush to Clinton were right on target. Rather than continuing to whine, Bush should do a bit of soul searching with Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson. Taking the Clinton "I'll do anything to win" road to Washington is nothing to be proud of. The only thing Bush will bring to Washington is hot air from a different party. SHARON FLECK HERMAN Lindenhurst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 20, 2000 | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

...question of whether six-year-olds have a sense of right and wrong: absolutely. Kids whine about unfairness almost as soon as they can whine. They instinctively justify their social retaliations--physical or not--as just deserts. Kayla probably died because her killer felt he was wronged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of Innocence? | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...Carlos says that the Harvard students he drives are almost always friendly and polite. His one criticism refers to a familiar, time-honored tradition of Harvard conversation: the interminable whine. "They're always complaining that (their classes) are too hard," he says with laugh. "I understand that they've got a lot of work...

Author: By Toc. Berkman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Life in the Driver's Seat: Confessions of a Cambridge Cabbie | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...George W. Bush household. Millions of people would give literally anything to get their kids into a school like Harvard, and millions more simple admire it as another, brighter world. Knowing them and what they think of the opportunity you've got, it'll be a lot harder to whine about Group II. Out in the Real World, you'll hear what someone should have told you since your first day in the Yard: you've already made it. So work hard, but for the love of Henry A. Kissinger '50, don't whine about...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Join the Harvard Corps | 2/29/2000 | See Source »

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