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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have voted for two libertarian candidates for President, believe in drug legalization and have done many things that would have gotten me caned in Singapore, a Catholic school or anyplace someone happened to be near a cane. I've fought the left's paternalism of the body and the right's paternalism of the soul. But recently I've been wondering if my political assumptions are wrong, if America might not be better off under a dictatorship. I've also been wondering if somewhere deep inside, I secretly want to be caned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tough-Love Dictator of My Dreams | 10/12/2009 | See Source »

...excavation [for the water main] probably isn’t as compact as the surrounding soil.” Despite the leak, the House’s Field Day celebrations and opening convocations continued in the Quincy courtyard. Housemaster Deborah J. Gehrke, in full academic regalia, flourished the Quincy cane and admonished the gas leak that had threatened the ceremonies. “I expunge this gas leak from Quincy.” —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached at egroll@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gas Leak Causes Dorm Evacuation | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Housemaster Deborah J. Gehrke, in full academic regalia, flourished the Quincy cane and admonished the gas leak that had threatened the ceremonies...

Author: By Elias J. Groll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gas Main Breaks at Quincy House | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

Housemaster Deborah J. Gehrke, in full academic regalia, flourished the Quincy cane and admonished the gas leak that had threatened the ceremonies...

Author: By Elias J. Groll | Title: Gas Leak at Quincy | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...This makes us a laughingstock.' ASHLI CHIN, a resident of Kuala Lumpur, on a Malaysian court's decision to cane a Muslim woman, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno (right), for drinking beer; the outcry over the verdict spurred the government to indefinitely postpone the punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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