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According to Rawlins, the Mock Trial team will receive $175 from the Council. In intercollegiate competitions it faces teams that receive as much as $8000 from their universities...

Author: By Laura E. Rosenbaum, | Title: U.C. Establishes 'Outstanding Service' Award | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

When we heard of the strange cyberdoctrines of the Heaven's Gate group last week, the easiest thing in the world to do was to mock them for their unapologetic embrace of UFOs, "Human Evolutionary Levels" and even a Star-Trekky Kingdom of Heaven--to mock them, in fact, for defying our belief as they embraced their own. Their very name, we could tell ourselves cosily (as we painted Easter eggs and watched outlandishly dressed icons waving golden, human-shaped statuettes), sounded like an X-Files version of a Californian health-food store. It mattered little that unlike the members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR DAYS OF JUDGMENT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

...Franklin Hill students introduced themselves in a series of mock interviews, while the group from Chinatown performed skits to represent their community...

Author: By Martin G. Hickey, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: New Group Brings Teens Together | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...entire culture seem to think that, if given the chance, most virgins would choose to have sex. We have to understand that many males are virgins by choice, not by circumstance. As a result of our view of male virgins as losers who can't get laid, we mock them and give no moral value to their decision. On the other hand, we see female virginity as virtuous because we conclude that females are virgins by choice...

Author: By Sozi T. Sozinho, | Title: Men Can Be Virgins, Too | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

...actors do their part, pretending to speak their lines and offering appropriately comedic or horrific facial expressions, but ultimately they are only playing caricatures. The costumes are brightly colored and straight out of a carnival, making the mock terror of Caligari's Grand Guignol play seem ridiculously stylized...

Author: By Erwin R. Rosinberg, | Title: 'Caligari' Saturates Senses, Lacks Coherence | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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