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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...happen in front of an audience. It was always done for effect. Another common example is that if I have a disagreement with my male counterparts, I generally tend to get the label of being "difficult" because I am suffering from PMS syndrome or because I am "on the rag." That is a gender-identificati on problem. You can't say that to a male counterpart who disagrees with you. These men tend to use the female image and those things that are perceived by society as making women inferior, i.e., the fact that we are different biologically, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking Out on The Boys: Dr. FRANCES CONLEY | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...debate is an indication of how little silence there has actually been. In four years at Harvard we have witnessed the creation of The Peninsula and the Lighthouse, the Association Against Learning in the Absence of Religion and Morality and Defeat Homophobia, the revitalized Republican Club and The Rag collective...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Finding a Voice | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...year-old Felicia, a small bundle of bones in a pink dress, whose plastic hearing aids keep falling off, tangling with her gold earrings. She is ( deaf, and doctors are not sure how much she can see. She functions at the capacity of a four-month-old. Like a rag doll, she can neither sit nor stand by herself: her trunk is too weak and her legs are too stiff. A therapist massages and bends the little girl's legs, trying to make her relax. Next year her foster mother will put Felicia in a special school full time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crack Kids: Innocent Victims | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...military network, which is broadcasting the most comprehensive schedule of programming ever provided for fighting forces. In a region where a night of R. and R. means downing a couple of cans of nonalcoholic beer and practicing the steps to a new Marine-invented dance, the "Gas Mask Rag," the outside diversion is welcomed. "It is very important to keep up morale in the midst of such a lonely and isolating experience as a war in a desert," says Army Lieut. Colonel Robert Dawson, deputy director of the military broadcasting center in Los Angeles, which gathers the bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Morning, Saudi Arabia | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

...haven't yet determined the time schedule or picked the topic for the next issue, but we have an ongoing commitment to [The Rag]," said Dulcy Anderson '92, a contributor to the magazine...

Author: By E.k. Anagnostopoulos, | Title: Feminist Journal Leads To Emotional Reactions | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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