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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crumpets British accent. "I don't know why it's there. It tends to separate the A's from the B's. Perhaps that tends to be a bit unfair." Power is equally confused. "I think the numbers are really bizarre." But she retains faith in the University's wisdom. "I presume there's a reason," she adds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: #5: The Law of Triskaidekaphobia: Why Not A Baker's Dozen? | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...truth of the matter is, whites are superior. They are not superior because they are born superior. They are superior because they have been the ruling power, that God has permitted them to rule. They have had the wisdom and the guidance to rule while most of the dark world or the darker people of the world have been, as they have called it, asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Louis Farrakhan: They Suck the Life From You | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

Berman, as Plato Pasta, perfect the dippy Italian a la "My Cousin Vinny." Nye finds a way to make his one-joke character seem almost wistful. Hartman, as spacey Isis Melting, sounds just like Janis from the Muppet Show, and convincingly spouts her Woodstock wisdom. "Love," she says, "means never having to say I don't love...

Author: By Joanna M. Weiss, | Title: Kicklines at the Colosseum | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

...hotels for me, thank goodness. my mother and father, when choosing my godparents, had the infinite wisdom and foresight to pick two people, each with their own spouses and homes, who both live in New Orleans and have children very close to my age. And my aunt had the good sense to pass down the genes for attending Loyola University in New Orleans (the alma mater of my mother and my aunt) to my same-age cousin Anne. They all have a strong sense of Southern hospitality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Of Booze, Beads and Blondes | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

Conventional wisdom watch. Best trends on campus: saddle shoes, bluegrass, the '40s. (And you through that you were the only one who went to see High Lonesome at the Carpenter Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Take the G-Train | 2/24/1994 | See Source »

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