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...punch classes have grown larger and more eager, the club has been turning away three or four times as many women as it has been accepting due to size constraints...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Club of Their Own: Seneca, Sororities Make a 'Social' Scene | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...after his recent vote on the China trade bill facing the House, Houghton got a call from a disgruntled constituent called who threatened to "come punch...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New York State of Mind: After Running Family Business, Amory Houghton Serves as Renegade U.S. Representative | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

...deadline journalism's inherent defects is that, in order to organize the material and give it punch, a reporter seeks out a narrative line - sometimes the most obvious or sensational, sometimes a merely conventional version, the one that has been arrived at by consensus of the journalistic hive. The narrative line in turn dictates an attitude, the atmosphere out of which the journalist writes. Maybe the story line is that George W. Bush is a little stupid. Or that Al Gore lies about things he did in the past. Everyone loves to hear a story. But is it true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes Time to Sort the Spin From the Truth | 6/5/2000 | See Source »

TONYA HARDING Gets three days for throwing hubcap at boyfriend's head. Uh ... no punch line needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 29, 2000 | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...soldiers insist that their insignia be displayed in Jerusalem's temple and the priests vow to die rather than let graven images inside. TV producers might do well to observe a similar proscription when it comes to the Bible, given their tendency to engrave religion as a greeting-card punch line (God, the Devil and Bob) or a pious, thundering bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Human, None Too Human | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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