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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Crimson came out in the second half and tried to step its game up another notch, Tinsley put the Huskies on her shoulders and ran with them. Unfortunately for the Crimson, it could not call on Feaster, now in a Los Angeles Sparks uniform, to do the same...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Goin' Bohlen: Playin' in a Winter Woeful-land | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...Relegating the needs of these women to "more meeting space and an occasional hug," as Oppenheim does, reveals the pervasive ways in which women's status continues to be demeaned and their experiences trivialized. Moreover, while the glorious call for equal opportunity and non-discrimination sounds pleasant to the ears, it ignores the methods in which inequality is initially constructed. "Equal opportunity" and "non-discrimination" hence become ways to mask and then perpetuate the unequal conditions that exist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...with weird hairdos and horns on their hats? It's not just jocks; the whole school's disgusted with them. They're a bunch of homos, grabbing each other's private parts. If you want to get rid of someone, usually you tease 'em. So the whole school would call them homos, and when they did something sick, we'd tell them, 'You're sick and that's wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Columbine Tapes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

When they knocked on each family's door, it was Mr. Harris and Mr. Klebold who answered. By then, news of the assault at Columbine was playing out live on TV. Mr. Harris' first reflex was to call his wife and tell her to come home. And he called his lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Columbine Tapes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

Klebold and Harris were completely soaked in violence: in movies like Reservoir Dogs; in gory video games that they tailored to their imaginations. Harris liked to call himself "Reb," short for rebel. Klebold's nickname was VoDKa (his favorite liquor, with the capital DK for his initials). On pipe bombs used in the massacre he wrote "VoDKa Vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Columbine Tapes | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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