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...good job of publicizing the weekend's events with posters, but UC representatives should be more active in talking up the weekend. Tell friends to go. Make friends go. Twist some arms and crack some whips if you have to. The end--high attendance--will justify the means...

Author: By Jason M. Solomon, | Title: Toward a Better Fling | 4/24/1991 | See Source »

...closing, I just wish to congratulate Adam Webb and the members of AALARM on their crack investigative work; it's about time somedody brought this dirty little secret to light. Behind that innocuous-looking blue door lies a Hillel in a handbasket. Especially shameful is the organization's insistence on masquerading as a group dedicated to upholding an ethical and moral tradition. These P.C. inquisitors are on the lookout to attack anyone who disagrees with them, accusing them of racism, sexism, ageism, and anything else they can think of, regardless of Truth. It's about time we attacked back. Jennifer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillel Is a Hot Bed of Sin | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

Maybe it's hearing the crack of a bat, or watching a runner round third and slide into home. Maybe it's the doffing of the hat at the solemn strains of our national anthem, or the mystiques of the seventh-inning stretch...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Splendor in the Grass: Writers Celebrate the Game of Baseball | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

...card numbers, telephone access codes and other contraband of the information age. The authorities intended to send a sharp message to would-be digital desperadoes that computer crime does not pay. But in their zeal, they sent a very different message -- one that chilled civil libertarians. By attempting to crack down on telephone fraud, they shut down dozens of computer bulletin boards that may be as fully protected by the U.S. Constitution as the words on this page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberpunks and The Constitution | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...longer glowing. He is all too well aware of American displeasure with Japan's failure to live up to expectations during the gulf war. Not only did Tokyo prove unable to muster even noncombatant participation in the conflict, but its purse also seemed as hard to crack as a Republican Guard bunker. The Japanese felt chastened by Bush's postponement of a spring visit to Tokyo while the President and Secretary of State James Baker undertook a round of meetings with leaders from nations that contributed militarily to the victorious coalition. Worried about U.S. ill-feeling, Tokyo hurriedly arranged this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: In Search of a Triumph | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

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