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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...semester. With only two seven-to eight-page papers and a final, Government 1091: "Debating American Politics: Liberal Democracy Past and Present" means free front row seats for the political fight of the semester. There are no pre-requirements, making Gov 1091 the perfect chance to journey into Gov Jock territory for the uninitiated...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can You Take It? The Latest Shopping List of 11 | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

Indeed, Fieger might be Michigan's fastest-rising Democrat, but he sometimes sounds more like "shock jock" Howard Stern. From disarming candor ("Sure, I smoked marijuana. And I inhaled. I'm not a liar like Clinton") to mean-spirited jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Motown Motormouth | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...there he also hit a couple of golf balls, and perhaps that's the way Americans who watched it will remember him. But Kluger says that Shepard was known as "the ice commander" for good reason. "He was either all business or he was this genial swashbuckling rocket jock, and he would switch back and forth without warning, according to his own internal clock." Whatever foibles this space pioneer carried inside him, they never poisoned the camaraderie among the original seven Mercury astronauts named by NASA in April 1959. Not too long ago, says Kluger, Shepard was talking to John...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Shepard, 1923-1998 | 7/22/1998 | See Source »

Neil: I'm not too far from Emilio Estevez's character. I mean, he was a jock but he wasn't a beef-head jock. He was a sensitive jock...

Author: By Shara R. Kay, | Title: a table | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

...glaring white "just bought from the Coop" look, but Dana W. Sprong '01 actively combats fitting such stereotypes by wearing a blue one. He says, "I like this hat because it's not white and everyone at my high school thought people who wore white hats were preppy jocks." Dana is proudly non-preppy--but, he's still a jock...

Author: By Susana E. Canseco, | Title: Hats Off! | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

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