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...caning proposed is no mere slap on the buttocks. Prisoners are tied down to a wooden trestle and whipped by martial arts experts. The skin breaks with the first stroke of the cane, and within seconds, prisoners usually go into shock from the intense pain. Physical scars always remain...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: What Price Order? | 4/12/1994 | See Source »

Lemieux left nothing for the imagination in voicing his feelings. And the league responded with a slap on the wrist. There was no suspension--just a 500 dollar fine...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Spring Cleaning | 4/8/1994 | See Source »

...used to be really bad," Craven says. "Guys used to soak each other's clothes...one guy found his clothes in a huge tape ball and there's always the guy who will saw someone's stick in half so when he goes to take a slap shot the stick cracks in half...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Managing the Crimson | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...doomsday predictions he inspires, Chernomyrdin has both his rhetoric and behavior to thank. Since taking office in December 1992, he has dismissed the "improvisations" of free-enterprise thinkers like Yegor Gaidar as "poorly thought-out experiments," taken a verbal slap at "market romanticism" and disparaged privatization by comparing it to Stalin's forced collectivization, which killed more than 10 million peasants during the 1930s. As for the Prime Minister's policy initiatives, International Monetary Fund officials weighing whether to unlock $1.5 billion in aid to Russia are most disturbed by his willingness to pump increasingly worthless rubles into inefficient state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Move Over, Yeltsin | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

Well, that's not true. We have much to write about love, but we wanted to be cynical and wry, and we're both slap-happily involved with people right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VALENTINE'S DAY SUCKS | 2/10/1994 | See Source »

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