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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inches less on Olazabal's second shot to the par-five 15th would have sent his ball careening down the slippery slope to a watery grave--a near-certain bogey-six, not the eagle-three he eventually corralled by holing a putt of no minimal length...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Noble Loser | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Once the content of speech can be monitored by thought-police who delineate "standards of sensitivity" for speech, there may be no stopping the slippery slope towards intellectual tyranny. What was perhaps the most intellectually alienating feature of the politically correct movement was that, in attempting to define the acceptable vocabulary of political discourse, it led to the negation of discourse. From the Sedition Act of 1798, to the McCarthy era to the PC-movement, to Harvard Law's speech codes, censorship is a dangerous threat to liberty...

Author: By Gil B. Lahav, | Title: Say No To Speech Codes | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...Faculty Council is] afraid that if they take this one step to make this committee they will slide down the slippery slope and form a concentration," Minority Student Alliance member Hyewon T. Chong '95 said in an interview. "I'm very disappointed...

Author: By Sandhya R. Rao, | Title: Students Plan Push for Ethnic Studies | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

FJHW: Because it allows me to express myself ina silly way. I hike a lot and it's great to haveit on as a sort of fun reminder. I see theseJester hats a lot on the ski slope, where I thinkI think it also important for people to expresstheir creativity outdoors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jesting, Jesting, One, Two, Three | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

...calling Moe -- who had been expelled from teams as an adolescent for smoking marijuana -- a "little truant" and describing Roffe-Steinrotter as looking like "an insomniac squirrel." But French skier Florence Masnada was more gracious. "The Americans have no complexes," she said admiringly. "They just throw themselves down the slope without asking any questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SKIING: Schuuuusss! | 2/28/1994 | See Source »

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