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...creation of Congress, signed into law by President Clinton. And those who would find fault with the military for discrimination should note that opposing the military altogether, and wishing for its whole removal from campus, is an act entirely disproportional to the offense, which has been thrust on the military by a legislative overseer...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Respecting ROTC | 10/28/2003 | See Source »

...talking, ethnic minority, an exotic with long, black tresses who attributes her dalliances to a free-love upbringing among her people, the matrilineal Mosuo. Lately she's marketed herself as an oracle of femininity. In her advice book, Namu Can Do, So Can You, she suggests that Chinese women thrust out their breasts when they need favors from men and urges them to smoke because "holding a cigarette in five beautiful fingers is really seductive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leaving the Motherland | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...change in the Tigers’ (1-4, 1-1) team dynamic over the past season, dating back to the last contest between these two squads, has thrust Szymanski into the offensive spotlight...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tamed Tigers Come to Town | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

...plane was full of G forces that pushed me back into my deep blue leather (but surprisingly narrow) seat. I strained to see the disappearing English countryside out a window that's no bigger than a salad plate. Passengers struggled to hold their video cameras steady while the plane thrust upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Last Hurrah for the Concorde | 10/24/2003 | See Source »

Apparently not. Or, apparently, he doesn’t care. The only thing that has thrust Clark into Moore’s good graces and into the national spotlight is the strange—yet compelling fact—that, despite being a high-ranking military official, he opposed the war in Iraq. The fact that Clark actually has flip-flopped on the issue of whether or not he would’ve voted for a war in Iraq doesn’t seem to concern Moore, or the American Left, all that much. What Moore cares about is that...

Author: By Sam Graham-felsen, | Title: Moore About Clark | 10/21/2003 | See Source »

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