Word: lashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small handful of votes, those students who are elected to the Undergraduate Council quickly hit a brick wall of student apathy. Students complain about us, the council members claim, but no one cares enough to do anything about it. Students, if they care enough to listen, become defensive and lash out at the group...
Dressed in a burgundy blazer, faded jeans and a T shirt for an appearance last week, he quoted Jim Morrison, Jerry Garcia and Deep Throat (the Watergate source, not the porn flick) to lash out at his favorite targets: a corrupt campaign-finance system, the sensationalist media and, most of all, career politicians. Students in the audience at Northfield's St. Olaf College hooted, applauded and did the Wave to show their appreciation. "He wants to help people," said David Parker, a starstruck St. Olaf sophomore who plans to vote for Ventura. "He's like a father figure...
America was built by the lash and by liberty; both the immoral and the moral contributed to its greatness. African Americans have been able to deal with this anomaly. It is time for other Americans to become aware that it was such contradictions that wove this nation into what it is today. HELEN GENTRY Detroit...
...impeachment is too severe a penalty for Clinton and censure too mild, why not consider flogging, Singapore-style? Perhaps one lash for each liaison with Lewinsky might be appropriate. Hillary could administer the punishment, and if it were on pay-per-view TV, enough revenue could be generated to reimburse the long-suffering taxpayer for the cost of the Starr investigation. STANLEY SAPERSTEIN Encino, Calif...
...believes that media violence undermines kids' resilience and self-control, psychological mechanisms that allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out. Some biologists--Harvard's E.O. Wilson has pioneered this thinking--believe there is a genetic component to these traits, that kids like Luke and Kip simply lack the DNA that keeps their fingers off the trigger. In the end, Satan is certainly the easier explanation, if less intellectually satisfying. As Kurt Cobain once sang, "Now the people cry and the people moan/ ... And try to find some place to rest their bones/ While...