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JOHNSON'S PREMISE that a poem, a Supreme Court ruling, and a "CIA manual on psychological operations in guerilla warfare" can all be reduced to rhetoric emphasizes--as does critical legal studies, as she points out--the process of textual interpretation...

Author: By Hein Kim, | Title: The Hubris of Reading | 5/20/1987 | See Source »

...Bullet LaVolta's strength comes from duelling guitars of Adams House junior Clay Tarver and Adams House Classics Tutor Corey Brennan: Tarver favors straight-forward riffs while Brennan produces lightning-quick metal solos. The result is a combination of licks reminiscent of the best MC5 or Cream and the manual dexterity of modern metal...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Kings Of The Wild Frontier | 4/23/1987 | See Source »

...appropriate fear" might be necessary. "Irresponsible sexual behavior" is the "main cause of the spread of AIDS," reads one memo from the Department of Education to HHS. The memo goes on to say that an earlier and more explicit HHS draft on AIDS education "resembles a dog-care manual. Not guidance for people." In a statement of principle accompanying the plan's release last week, Bennett wrote, "Young people must be told that the best way to avoid AIDS is to refrain from sexual activity until as adults they are ready to establish a mutually faithful monogamous relationship." Responded Democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Transfusion of Fear | 3/30/1987 | See Source »

Christina Mungan '87 said she had to avoid skewing history with her own feminist perspective. Mungan, who researched marital relations as described in a 14th century manual, said she was "very, very factual" because she "was afraid that people would jump up and say, 'O.K., you're a feminist, not a historian...

Author: By Camille L. Landau, | Title: Seniors Read Theses Excerpts | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

Outlined in a 29-page manual, the drug-detection program calls for specially appointed personnel to administer the tests in designated rest rooms. After presenting a photo ID, workers will be asked to remove their coats, and their briefcases and purses will be taken from them before they enter the stalls. Water in the toilets must be dyed blue, lest employees substitute H2O for their urine. The temperature of the specimens will be tested within four minutes, to make sure that workers are proffering fresh urine rather than "clean" samples they might have purchased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big John | 3/2/1987 | See Source »

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