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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...showed his butt at the 1997 MTV awards; she showed hers in '98 --She was raised in a cult; he's ordained by the Church of Satan --She has seen him in the morning before he puts on his makeup and still loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 1, 1999 | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...semester. Headlines would range from, "Psycho Senior Holds Kiosk Roast" to "Rodriguez protests, 'I'm Still Not Sorry!" to "Hewitt Visits Harvard in Anti-Arson Platform." Editorial letters that either give shame to my very existence or staunchly fight for my rights to burn would run nonstop. Gradually, a cult following would be built around me. The members would sing songs of peace outside the Ad Board office as the people inside groaned and wished they had never volunteered for such a thankless position...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Fantasizing About Infamy | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...leftist cultural criticism journal led by the likes of Thomas Frank, whose thesis is irrefutable: In this new gilded age, in which Sport Utility Vehicles abound and frequent flier perks become sweeter every year, our culture has one driving motivation, one underlying sense of consciousness, one theme--the unbridled cult of materialism. All must bow to the almighty corporation, the omnipotent dollar...

Author: By Maxwell N. Krohn, | Title: Playing Right Into Their Hands | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...should realize that our manners and motives in accepting offers as consultants and investment bankers are in themodus operandiof corporate America. Ec 10 sourcebooks in hand, we join a cult whose only guiding principle is the profit motive. We need not feel hopelessly idealistic or Marxist if we dare to ask for more. Maxwell N. Krohn '99 is a computer science concentrator in Kirkland House. This past year he was the publisher of the Harvard Advocate...

Author: By Maxwell N. Krohn, | Title: Playing Right Into Their Hands | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...this overload of testosterone comes in the form of Van Der Beek's little brother, whose sissy religious inclinations threaten the very masculinity of their overbearing father. He literally has a cross to bear, bows with regal reverence to the barbecue grill and even at one point starts a cult with other neighborhood kids. How sweet...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Winter Round-Up | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

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