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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...large share of the student body to the event. As exciting as the games may be, Springfest will always be centered around its music, and therefore it needs a first-rate concert to be a complete success. In the future, the U.C. will have to find a way to obtain enough money to attract a star performer such as LL Cool J, who played at Tufts this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Little More Zest | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...stun weapons to the ordinary public but then gives names, manufacturers, locations and descriptions of the weapons! Maybe you didn't intend this to be a torture-weapons catalog, but it can serve as one. Waller made life easy for crooks and regimes that are looking for places to obtain these weapons! JACQUELINE CANTILLO Bogota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...tackle football in the morning, seven of us drove to a toga party sponsored by Todd and Brian's fraternity chapter at Penn State. The party featured live goldfish to swallow, and brothers passing around "Gold Bond," a powder which both guys and girls rub on their crotches to obtain a tingling feeling. (Unfortunately, refusing to try it, I can't verify the experience...

Author: By Joshua J. Schanker, | Title: GOING GREEK | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

Acceptance of such art is difficult to obtain because of how the media present issues of artistic aesthetics, according to Alisa Solomon, a staff writer at the Village Voice...

Author: By Ronald Y. Koo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Controversial Art Funds Discussed By Panelists | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...TIME review of Commerce Department documents shows that Washington has approved a dozen shipments of stun guns and shock batons over the past decade to Saudi Arabia despite that country's long history of brutalizing prisoners. American firms must obtain a Commerce Department license to export shock weapons to most countries, and officials say the applications are closely screened to block the items from falling into the hands of human-rights abusers. Yet Air Taser has been negotiating to supply thousands of electric-shock riot shields for crowd control to police in Turkey, where torture is "widespread," according to State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons Of Torture | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

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