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...about crabgrass? That's what we have back home. It doesn't look very nice, and it doesn't induce people to whip out their checkbooks...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Keep Off the Grass! | 4/24/1991 | See Source »

...Just because someone buys a whip doesn't mean they want to whip the be-jeezus out of you," says Phelps. "It's the perfect amount of stimulus that's just enough to make the blood rise to the surface. That's what the whole spanking thing is about...

Author: By Esme Howard, | Title: Enhancing the Sexual Experience | 4/20/1991 | See Source »

...final tally of Brown's third-period assault came with 4:01 left in the session, when Staffort exploded past Crimson long-sticks Dennis Murphy and Mike Tauckus to whip the ball past Miller...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: Brown Blitzkrieg Overpowers Laxmen | 4/18/1991 | See Source »

...shortest route to a conviction is to get the accused to cry out, "I did it." Sometimes police and prosecutors have been tempted to whip the suspect down that road with anything from a subtle threat to a back-room clubbing. For that reason, courts have long held that forced confessions, whether they were obtained by coercion, beating or psychological pressure, could not be used against an accused person in court. Last week, in a ruling that showed just how vulnerable the legacy of the Earl Warren years has become, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that maybe forced confessions were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions That Were Taboo Are Now Just a Technicality | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...Before I could whip off another 30-page return, I got, just six days later, yet another nice letter from Glynda Hankins, this one informing me that "the information you requested is enclosed." Except that it was not. Enclosed instead were a copy of the basic "who must file" instructions (someone had underlined, in purple, the paragraph about widows and widowers) and a photocopy of a death certificate for a man named Clyde Majors, who had died in 1988 of "myocardial infarction due to a ruptured esophagus." ("WARNING:" read the bottom of the death certificate the IRS had photocopied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles Dear IRS . . . | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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