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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SWAT member John A. Felitti '91 said ZIP'sposters rely on an "emotional punch" that attractsattention but does not stimulate thought. Felittisaid SWAT tries to rally people to its cause bypublicizing facts about the clubs, rather thanpolarize the student body along emotional lines...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: New Group Uses Humor, Feminism to Fight Clubs | 11/8/1988 | See Source »

Polls show that populism is a message with punch. For many traditional Democrats, the politics of economic populism goes to the heart of the way they define themselves. It speaks to the very reason that they are Democrats, something that until recently Dukakis has found difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dose of Old-Time Populism | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

Drinking fruit punch and eating egg rolls and enchiladas, more than 200 people celebrated former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King's 60th birthday last Thursday at Roxbury Community College...

Author: By Peter S. Kozinets, | Title: Leaders Mark Mel King's 60th | 10/25/1988 | See Source »

...Middleweight Hembrick, 22, captain of the U.S. team, missed a bus and never got a chance to fight. Featherweight Banks, 23, should have missed his; he got careless midway through the first round ^ against Regilio Tuur of the Netherlands, ran into a hard right hand and suffered a one-punch knockout that left him unconscious for a full three minutes. "I never saw it, didn't even feel it," Banks said after an overnight hospital stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympic Shorts: They Shoulda Stood in Bed | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...sought to impose rules on legal mayhem, otherwise known as boxing, so Britain's Home Office last week attempted to quantify penalties for illegal assaults. Under guidelines sent to the country's 27,710 magistrates, attackers can be forced, in effect, to compensate their victims by the punch. Sample penalties: $84 for a simple graze, $168 for a black eye, $1,428 for a broken nose, $2,940 for a fractured jaw and as much as $13,440 for a serious facial scar. Said Home Office Minister John Patten: "I am anxious that the victims get a better deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Socking It to The Bad Guys | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

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