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...pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent you might think it is. Fight Club makes it very clear what the effects of yuppie angst are on the rest of the world: men beat each other up for fun, blocks of skyscrapers...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: hush, yuppies: would you like some whine with your cheese? | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...pounding someone else to a pulp with his bare hands. Everything is frenetic, violent, and rough-cut in retaliation against the stuffy conformity of yuppie existence: in this angst-ridden world, movies have violent spurts of hardcore pornography, people commit random acts of senseless whoopass, the corporate oppressor gets his well-deserved comeuppance only after a violent "brawl"-even soap is not the innocuous cleansing agent you might think it is. Fight Club makes it very clear what the effects of yuppie angst are on the rest of the world: men beat each other up for fun, blocks of skyscrapers...

Author: By Ankur N. Ghosh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Undoing Yuppiedom | 10/15/1999 | See Source »

...began--still vigorously cleansing Kosovo. But refugees report that Serbian soldiers have shed their uniforms to patrol the roads on stolen tractors, disguising themselves as civilian convoys. An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed. A footnote: as more Apaches arrive, the number of G.I.s in Albania, 350 a month ago, will soon grow to more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: It's Flight Or Fight | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...saying that serving your country in the armed services is just like being a tool of an armed oppressor. I see the military's job as the exact opposite--protecting the innocent like the Kosovar Albanians," he says...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan and Alexis B. Offen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: We Asked, They Told | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...saying that serving your country in the armed services is just like being a tool of an armed oppressor. I see the military's job as the exact opposite--protecting the innocent like the Kosovar Albanians," he says...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: We ASKED They TOLD | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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