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...another Bay Area community, a teenage boy was thrown through a plate-glass window when he tried to stop a group of them from pasting up an anti-Semitic poster. In Chicago one of their leaders was indicted after a spree of anti-Semitic vandalism. The bizarre force behind the wave of racist incidents: skinheads, loosely organized groups of violent youths who may be emerging as the kiddie corps of the neo-Nazi movement. Declares Los Angeles Detective Michael Brandt bluntly: "They are a threat to the moral fiber of our society...
...adult world. Jerome Kirk, professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, believes that many skinheads just want to "get a rise out of straight grownups. Some of this has the same significance as the swastikas favored by bikers; it's a symbol. But what's behind it is much shallower than something like Nazism...
...objects designed to satisfy every yearning: there are pedestals holding colored glass balls that resemble huge Christmas-tree ornaments, 6-ft.-tall ranch-style windmills, plastic pink flamingos -- and some items that are downright tasteless, notably a painted wooden figure that depicts an obese woman bending over, seen from behind. "I won't go so far as to say we're the biggest in the business," says Harper. "I heard of some place in Chicago that has a pretty big stock. But we do have the biggest variety I know about...
Ciavaglia, a native of Snyder, N.Y., is also the ECAC's third-leading scorer. The freshman forward, whose ECAC line reads 5-14--19, is just three points behind RPI's Joe Juneau (6-16--22) and two points behind Colgate's Rejean Boivin...
Thirty meters behind in the anchor leg of the 4x800-meter relay, Pfefferle took the baton from teammate Eva Klohnen, and proceeded to kick past her Army opponent. The relay victory put Harvard on top for good in Saturday's dual meet at West Point...