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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...correspondent stopped a Key Tour that was just finishing up the "Three Lies of the John Harvard Statue" spiel. Knowing that Crimson Key folks went gaga for good humor, FM decided to crack a joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Diary of a Madman | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

Three students say that van der Merwe, who iswhite, told them an offensive joke about theFugawis, "a tribe in Africa that jumps up and downand says 'Fuck, fuck, fuck...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: Allegations Divide Wing | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...uneasy, too, Genital mutilation is unpalatable, whether it be female or male, Yet the whole Bobbitt saga has been turned into a media three-ring circus, ranging from Jay Leno's talk-show quips to radio stations hosting Lorena Bobbitt Weenie Tosses, It seems that it's easier to joke about Lorena Bobbitt than it is to deal with the alarming question it raises: was Lorena Bobbitt justified in her attempt to castrate her husband...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Learning From the Bobbitts | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...penalties," says Antoine McClarn, 22, who sits in the Cook County Jail on charges of armed robbery. "Guys are charged and then released, and it's like a cycle to them, almost fun. People used to be scared to come here, but now it's a game or a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: America's Overcrowded Prisons | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...other groups would jump at the chance of a precedent-setting suit? Why is Andy's huge family so conspicuously loving, so unanimously supportive? Why do the good guys have to be so pristine and the bad guys -- senior law partners, of course -- so ostentatiously venal? Andy's last joke is one that all viewers are expected to applaud: "What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gay Gauntlet | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

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