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...messianic mantle cannot simply be torn down. That's just not how divine things work...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: I Still Believe in Mike | 11/10/1992 | See Source »

...there wasn't. I did it as a symbol of my rejection of what they are teaching people and of my belief that their influence in the world must be torn apart. I accept that tearing the picture can be viewed as a negative attitude, but one has to do what one can do. If I hadn't torn the picture, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Now people will listen to what I'm saying and let me explain what I'm talking about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People Need a Short, Sharp Shock: SINEAD O'CONNOR | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb of White Oak, Maryland, whose residents had long since forgotten the naval chemical-ordnance bunker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thousand Points of Blight | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...objects. No longer playful, the women now strut coolly about the stage in their tight velveteen dresses and red spike heels. The sexy entourage is periodically interrupted, however, by a woman who stumbles in her shoes, tugs at her dress, or collapses into a flailing tantrum. The women seem torn between the power of their sexual identity and the pain they must endure to maintain...

Author: By Phoebe Cushman, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Exploring the Politics of Women's Bodies | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

BGLSA leaders say, for instance, that the organization's posters are often torn down almost immediately, especially in certain houses...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GAY LIFE AT HARVARD | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

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