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Find that single country station you can pick up in Cambridge and you'll learn this: the most desirable women in the world are smart as a whip and not afraid to show it. They are outspoken, demanding and highly capable equals...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: A Cowboy's Kind of Girl | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

...ought be grateful that our ancestors were taken away from everything familiar to them on the coasts of West Africa and kept as slaves for centuries is the most banal. I don't want to shock Novak, but the Middle Passage was not quite a Carnival cruise. Patterns of whip lashes on the backs of slaves weren't regarded as pretty decorations. And being raped to breed bastard children that would be sold away from you wasn't exactly a good ol' romp...

Author: By Carine M. Williams, | Title: Deepest Apologies | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

...sketched out, documents left by 16th century nuns described in detail: the 14-ft.-long, herringbone-twill linen cloth of which the bishop spoke did bear the image of a naked and bearded man about 6 ft. tall, hair in a loose ponytail, back apparently scourged with a multithonged whip, hands crossed modestly before him. The figure was already faded then: a more recent witness described it as having "both the color and character of faint scorch marks on a well-used ironing cover." But not so faint that, D'Arcis excepted, people doubted who it was. Believers continued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science And The Shroud | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...also gave a guest lecture in a course on Congress and the press taught by former Sen. Alan K. Simpson (R-Wyom.). Simpson, who now directs the Institute of Politics, was the Republican majority whip under Dole, the no. 2 leadership position in the Senate...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Elizabeth Dole Will Address Kennedy School Graduates on Class Day | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...point is that there has always been fastfood in China. You could find it on the street.You could stop and someone would whip something upquick, so that's been there for hundreds of years...

Author: By David J. Kressel, | Title: Eat, Drink, James, Watson | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

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