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Some of the book’s interviewees dismiss the need for a computer on the grounds that life is better without AIM. Some say caffeine pills are the number one thing to bring to college, and some contribute by describing how they keep the smell of smoke from leaking out under the door...

Author: By Emer C.M. Vaughn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Advise Frosh | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Activists in the New England area fought to dismiss the charges, part of a larger battle against state laws that insist SM is a form of assault...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sadomasochism Comes Out of the Closet | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...California, New York and Florida, for example, SM laws are not enforced. Courts in those states tend to consider the consensual nature of the act and dismiss the charges, but the laws are still on the books, Kramer says...

Author: By Kevin J. Feeney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sadomasochism Comes Out of the Closet | 10/28/2004 | See Source »

...fire alarms). "They don't necessarily agree with me," he says, "but they know I'm not trying to hoodwink people." Cope has been confounding doubters ever since the Teardrop Explodes imploded in a fug of LSD and recrimination in 1983. Critics have found it all too easy to dismiss him as an acid - damaged jester who blew it. In fact, from his idyllic family home above Avebury, Cope has made a fruitful cottage industry of his cosmic obsessions and scattershot curiosity, recording scores of albums and writing successful and engaging books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocks of Ages | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

...girlfriend and ex-producer. Like Let It Be for the Beatles, this album will never really be Smith’s, and future generations won’t even have a McCartney to reclaim the reins with a ...Naked release thirty years later. But to dismiss this album at any epistemological level is to deny its sweeping power and beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVIEW OF THE WEEK | 10/22/2004 | See Source »

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