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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forgive my alma mater if the best it can do for a homecoming queen is a student in drag. Wabash, a small, liberal-arts college in Crawfordsville, Ind., is all male--one of only three such schools in the U.S. The student newspaper is called the Bachelor, and freshmen still shout the school song from the chapel steps each fall with more ferocity and face paint than the Scots wore in Braveheart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Company of Men | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...third, and only marginally on the second piece, although we were helped by the other boat's inexperienced coxswain, whose creative steering maneuvers included running the boat up on the sandbank between Arsenal and North Beacon on the first piece. After practice they said they heard the skeg drag along the bottom, but it stayed attached...

Author: By Jesse C. Nussbaum, | Title: A Rower's Diary | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...buying me a hotel room." He laughs. "Got another cigarette?" he asks Beth. "Know what that is?" He points to a patch sewed to the thigh of his black pants. "It's the rebel flag. It's the symbol of the Confederacy." He laughs again, takes a drag of his cigarette. "I love to piss people...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: CRLS.: The Kids Next Door | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

Several proposals for the governance of genetic information are before the Massachusetts legislature at the committee level. State representatives mustn't drag their feet and should make passing effective legislation a priority. Ideally, such legislation will restrict the use of genetic information in health insurance and employment and closely regulate the retention and disclosure of genetic information. Responsibilities for enforcement will be assigned and testing laboratories and physicians alike will be required to clearly explain individuals' rights upon any test or disclosure of results. Such careful regulation will ensure that genetic information is always used in a responsible manner...

Author: By Sachin H. Jain, | Title: Keeping Genes out of the Public Sphere | 10/19/1999 | See Source »

...after two performances featuring House residents in drag singing and acting, the masters spoke...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spirit Unleashed As House War Ends | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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