TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES
TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES HOW DO THEY DEFINE “WASTE OF TIME”? The Columbus (Ohio) Coalition for the Homeless, which is composed of government, shelter, and social agency staff members, spent a year...
...The Columbus (Ohio) Coalition for the Homeless, which is composed of government, shelter, and social agency staff members, spent a year working on a dictionary that included such definitions as “emergency shelter for families: an emergency shelter which shelters families” and “homelessness: the state or condition of being a homeless person...
...Menem’s personal hairdresser...
...BO KNOWS LOOPHOLES An advertisement for Nike shoes posted at the Portland airport invites people to “buy a pair of Cross-Trainers and call it ‘dinner in Oakland.’Just kidding, of course.’’ SMITHERS, IS IT JUST ME OR WERE THERE SOME TRIDENT MISSILES OVER THERE YESTERDAY...
...FORTUNATELY, THE COLUMBUS COALITION CAN DEFINE IT The North Carolina Board of Education’s latest report on the state’s public schools frequently uses “advantagement,” a word that is not found in any standard dictionary...
...He was once thrown out of Madison Square Garden during a National Invitational Tournament for arguing with a referee...
...TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES HOW DO THEY DEFINE “WASTE OF TIME...
...INDIANA UBER ALLES The Fort Wayne JournalGazette reports that a local support group for wives, parents, and family members of soldiers serving in the Persian Gulf calls itself Operation Storm Troopers...
...ALSO THE AUTHOR OF BHNG AND DRIBBLING The notes on contributors in a Temple University Press collection of essays, Rethinking College Athletics, state, “Lawrence J. Hatab is associate professor of philosophy at Old Dominion University...
...His work includes “Language and Mysticism,” “Language and Mystery in Heidegger and Wittgenstein,” “Laughter in Nietzsche’s Thought,” Myth and Philosophy: Retrieving their Contest in Ancient Greece, and Nietzsche and Eternal Recurrence...
...A man sought for two murders committed in the course of an armored car holdup was arrested recently at the Electric Boat Division shipyard in Groton, Connecticut, where he had worked for two years on highly classified BUT HE’S WILLING TO DYE FOR HIS COUNTRY It was recently revealed that a man listed on the payroll of the Argentinian Senate as a secretary is in fact President Carlos nuclear submarines...
Vol. 23 • April 1991 • No. 4
