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...even more controversial approach is the risky "fist-to-cheek" position. Here, sleepers place an elbow on the armrest of the chair, and then balance the weight of their head on the strategically positioned knuckles. The peril here lies in the forces of gravity, which slowly pull the head downward, resulting in a cranial free-fall, jolting the student back to consciousness...

Author: By Bridie J. Clark, | Title: Getting Your Z | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...conservative view is that in this instant, the council changed from a productive, student-oriented group to a political organization concerned with shaking an angry liberal fist at the world...

Author: By Andrew A. Green, | Title: A Treatise on the Millennium | 2/3/1998 | See Source »

Hauling your head this way and that way As you clung to the sun--to the last Shred of the exploded dawn In your fist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 2, 1998 | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Crimson president William E. McKibben '81 reportedly reacted to news of the vote by putting his fist through a soda machine...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politics Always a Part of Crimson Editors' Consciences, Consciousness | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

Chiapas' campesinos are painfully accustomed to the iron fist of feudal P.R.I. chieftains, known as caciques, who make them survive on small hardscrabble plots. Land disputes in the state are frequent and usually settled with guns. But as democracy finally takes hold in Mexico--last year opposition parties won control of the lower houses of the federal as well as Chiapas state congresses--the caciques are panicking, and the killing has become more brazen. Opposition leaders blame police and the army for arming the sort of groups that hit Acteal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laws of the Jungle | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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