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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early '90s attended high school in Ashland, Wis., says he was kicked in the stomach so many times he required surgery. A group of boys also urinated on him. Robert McDonald, 20, a former student at Jefferson Township High School in southern New Jersey, claims he was spat upon while he rode the bus and beaten up after track practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAY TEENAGERS: OUT, PROUD AND VERY YOUNG | 12/8/1997 | See Source »

...this year the fans spat in the face of tradition and performed the act in the first quarter rather than the third, as a large group of Saybrook residents discarded all but the barest of essentials at the end of the opening period...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Records Tumble as Menick Rumbles | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Iovine and Field ran Interscope without a net, rejecting marketing reports and giving musicians leeway to direct their own careers--sometimes with combustible results. In May, Trauma sued Interscope over control of No Doubt, a spat settled with a $3 million payment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A SOUND REBOUND | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Once up in his room, Quilici's mother further irked him when she almost got into a "spat" with his roommate's mother...

Author: By Rebecca F. Lubens, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: TALES FROM FIRST-YEAR PARENTS WEEKEND | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Cuba-based artists, who are considered ambassadors of Castro's revolution, are frequent targets of exile wrath. When jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba performed in downtown Miami in April 1996, a crowd of 200 demonstrators spat on concertgoers as they tried to enter the theater. Three months later, a few days before singer Rosita Fornes, 74, was scheduled to perform at a popular night spot, someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window. The concerts were canceled, and the restaurant, Centro Vasco, a Miami institution, was shut down. "They feel like they are in a situation of war," says Miguel Gonzalez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURNING THE BEAT AROUND | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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