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...Class of 1994 has let the doyenne of controversial publications, the infamous rag, lapse into oblivion. Topping the particularly inflamatory "educated pussy" was a challenge that no present students could meet. The only news Penninsula makes these days concerns how little news it makes. The old guard--Roger Landry, Sumner Anderson, and company--were walking controversies. The spoke and the campus would go into a frenzy or at least plan an eat-in. Brigette/id Kerrigan could stir up acrimonious polemics about how her name should be spelled and provoke a near-insurrection with the well-timed wave of a flag...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Gore Says It All | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...leprosarium outside Calcutta on land provided by the government that I began to see her as an idealist rather than an eccentric. Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection. The ultimate terror the city held had nothing to do with violence. It was fear of the Other, the poor, the dying--or to evoke a word with biblical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTHER TERESA: The Saint | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...could find something wrong with The Phantom Menace if you wanted. Rag on Amidala's bizarre lipstick. Say the digitized characters look fake. Make fun of poor Jar-Jar Binks. Not I. Doing that is missing the point. I'm a fan. And sitting there, in the still-bright theater, I decide I can even get over missing Han Solo...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, | Title: Finding the Force | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

...going to include too much rag-on-Harvard humor," Hicks added. "That could go on for 20 verses...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Orators Chosen | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

...light verse...It's stuff that the Classof 1999 will appreciate. I'm not going to includetoo much rag-on-Harvard humor," Hicks added. "Thatcould go on for 20 verses...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Day Orators Selected | 5/4/1999 | See Source »

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