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...first question is: What happened? Either the irony of the publication is just too subtle for even the most subtle of readers, or someone with big hair and bigger scissors has snipped out your judgment and put it in the crisper of an industrial fridge. This magazine is a slap in the face of everything you used to (seemingly) stand for. In your old Sassy days, you preached independence, freedom from conformity and that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. Less than 10 years ago, you gave us 13-year-old girls stuck in rural Wisconsin a glimmer...

Author: By Jessica A. Nordell, | Title: Will the Real Jane Pratt Please Stand Up? | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

...resulting proposal was a major slap in the face to ROTC cadets," a council member wrote in an e-mail message to the uc-general mailing list...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Vandalism Follows Council's ROTC Vote | 4/14/1999 | See Source »

...lined up all these pills and was playing with an empty glass. I was trying really hard not to fill it up with water." But when, later, she tried talking to UHS, she was told to wait eight days for an appointment. Erin said that was a slap in the face...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Ordinary People | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Last week's NATO raids were more than just a slap at the Serbs. They also represented a fundamental and dramatic shift in the way the U.S. has mixed military policy with foreign affairs. For the better part of the past decade, ever since U.S. troops stumbled in Somalia, American thinking has conformed to the so-called Powell doctrine, named after former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. His doctrine had two tenets: first, the "biggest s.o.b. on the block" rule, that America should enter fights with every bit of force available or not at all. Second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...This bill is a slap in the face of every queer student on this campus," wrote Anna M. Baldwin '00 in a message to the council's group e-mail list. "I am out-raged at the contempt for the rights of gay students implicit in this bill...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Council Sparks Debate With Proposal to Reconsider ROTC | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

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