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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courses, it is not only teaching fellows who are occasionally ill-equipped to answer questions. I have heard from my spies that students have at times come to section--and I know this will come as a shock--without having done every word of the assigned reading. In section, contrary to students, gallant, even Herculean attempts to disguise the fact, it is usually apparent to the TF who has done the reading...

Author: By Daniel W. Hamilton, | Title: A Teaching-Fellow Tells All | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...BLACKOUTS Viagra can trigger sudden drops in blood pressure, and there is a risk that men who take it in combination with nitroglycerin or other antihypertensive drugs could faint or go into shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Downside Of Viagra | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much sense anymore of the sheer weirdness of that fact. We are harder to shock or impress. It has been years since the woman called Madonna simulated masturbation on stage with a crucifix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Love Is A Catastrophe | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...BGLTSA board encompasses all types," says Sofen, who is a Crimson editor. "My style is more the assimilationist user-friendly style. I'm not out to shock anyone, but I'm also not about to censor anyone...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Coming Out, Coming Together: Defining a Gay Agenda | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...surprised and shocked to read "Weapons of Torture" [WORLD, April 6], which described the international sale of electric-shock devices that can be used to abuse prisoners. Your writer Douglas Waller complains about the availability of stun weapons to the ordinary public but then gives names, manufacturers, locations and descriptions of the weapons! Maybe you didn't intend this to be a torture-weapons catalog, but it can serve as one. Waller made life easy for crooks and regimes that are looking for places to obtain these weapons! JACQUELINE CANTILLO Bogota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 27, 1998 | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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