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Some have pointed to the plan for a students' center as a concession that Harvard's highly touted house system has failed in providing a social outlet for undergraduates...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Center May Change Student Life | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

Instead, Connecticut capitalized on a Harvard miscue. At 39:57, senior goaltender Scott Salisbury softly rolled the ball out to junior backfielder Ping Li. A hustling Huskie stole the outlet, and passed to teammate Dan Sapienze who tallied...

Author: By Justin R.P. Ingersoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Late Goal Gives M. Boosters Upset Victory | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

They believe that lovers or babies will fill the void left by hateful, negligent and even abusive parents. Violence becomes both an outlet and a source of their anger. Some of these people are incorrigible, but the others do the same thing you would in their shoes. On top of all that, they taint the lives of the ordinary citizens in the neighborhoods with the fear of death and the reminder that hard work rarely gets you anywhere if you are from the ghetto...

Author: By P. GREGORY Maravilla, | Title: The End of Civilization As We Know It | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...course Ice-T has the right to say whatever he wants. But that doesn't require any company to provide him an outlet. And it doesn't relieve a company of responsibility for the messages it chooses to promote. Judgment is not "censorship." Many an "anguished cry" goes unrecorded. This one was recorded, and promoted, because a successful artist under contract wanted to record it. Nothing wrong with making money, but a company cannot take the money and run from the responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice T: Is the Issue Social Responsibility . . . | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...white Christian revival." With his message goes a commercial tie-in. Besides the usual Klan caps and T shirts and stickers, these rallies offer pricey Klan kitsch, like a ceramic statuette of a hooded Klansman whose eyes glow an eerie red when you plug it into an electrical outlet ($25 at a rally or $20 for the mail-order version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White & Wrong | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

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