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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Red Scare, simply questioning the American government made you a Communist. Today, any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual hegemony makes you a PC totalitarian. Just as the "Commie" epithet was used three decades ago to suspend rational political discourse, so today is the catch-phrase "PC" bandied about carelessly to dismiss any argument conservatives find distasteful...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Who's the Real McCarthy? | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

People's inhibitions further limit them and may scare them away from yoga, others...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Stressed-Out Learn to Relax Through Yoga | 3/2/1991 | See Source »

Crimson junior Co-Captain Jonny Kaye defeated Dartmouth's Jim Zug 3-0, and Farokh Pandole scraped back from a first-game scare to topple Dartmouth senior Doug Henry...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Squash Teams Annihilate Dartmouth | 2/14/1991 | See Source »

...Something like "The One Bullet Manager," which we claim we got Pol Pot to write for us--that's not too far from a book that has a management theory that I could think of. And if somebody came in there and said that they killed their employee to scare them into performing better...Well, not quite, but almost. There are books, like Winning Through Intimidation, and how far is that from ours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Talk About Sequels | 2/8/1991 | See Source »

Ironic, then, that I sympathize more with anti-war activist than with pro-war demonstrators. It's more than just a natural inclination to prefer peace to war or liberals to conservatives. I prefer anti-war activists because the pro-war demonstrators scare the hell...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Beyond Good and Evil: The Foolishness of Demonstrators | 1/23/1991 | See Source »

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