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...told detectives he was approached by a man who, while holding an unidentified weapon in his hand, demanded the student's backpack, said Harvard police spokesperson Peggy S. McNamara. The student walked briskly away before the suspect could get any closer...

Author: By Laura C. Semerjian, | Title: 2nd Student Reports Attack Outside Lamont | 11/19/1996 | See Source »

...information "too thin" to support a search warrant, as Jewell's lawyers claim? Not according to some experts, who note that investigators must only show "probable cause" that evidence is present to get a warrant. Yet Jewell's lawyers energetically maintain that none of these items were true. The backpack? Jewell never owned one. "He had a green knapsack he took to work every day, and they took that," says lawyer L. Lin Wood. The explosion? "Richard doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, except that he burns trash, and it could have been an aerosol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STRANGE SAGA OF RICHARD JEWELL | 11/11/1996 | See Source »

...often I get sidetracked, especially if it's in an interesting part of the PS (American literature) or LB (education) sections or if it's late at night in the Widener stacks and I'm tired of carrying books up and down floors. I'll toss down my backpack, sit on the floor in my jeans, and explore the wonders in front...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: A Bookworm's Confession | 11/1/1996 | See Source »

Possession and distribution of Midol will get you four months, with over three months off for good behavior and enrollment in a drug-rehab program. Advil in your backpack will get you a one-day suspension. Kiss a girl and make her cry? In North Carolina that's punishable by detention and missing an ice-cream party; in New York City, by a five-day suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO MORE TEACHERS' SILLY RULES | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...dark is surely a grizzly. It's amazing how many stumps on the hiking trail look exactly like a bear rearing on its hind legs. I've read that on the trails you should alert the bears you are coming by talking, singing or wearing a bell on your backpack. I was not singing or ringing when my daughter and I recently hiked in the Los Padres National Forest. Sure enough, we surprised a black bear eating berries. We were too startled to "gaze dreamily on the scenery" as Ehrenreich advised. Nor did I speak firmly or play dead. Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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