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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Police say the five young men had come to suspect that Tay, whom they had only just met through mutual friends, was going to betray their robbery scheme and had thoroughly rehearsed their response. According to investigators, while Tay was looking into a metal box (it supposedly contained a gun), Chan motioned to Acosta to pick up one of two baseball bats resting against the wall. Acosta struck Tay in the head, while Chan picked up the other bat and began beating Tay on the head and body. Kang and Choe, waiting in the next room, heard Tay scream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Honor Roll Murder | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...education were about the tragedies of history, the accidents that created us. Most people who assume you can pick and choose a culture, that you can become more or less Mexican like eating more or less pizza, are the most American of all. Your children are going to betray you. They're going to become Canadians, they're going to become North Americans and now they're going to become Mexicans...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Richard Rodriguez Grumbles about Life | 12/3/1992 | See Source »

...show, which covers over a century of history, from John Wilkes Booth's assassination of President Lincoln in 1865 to the present, is a "non-realistic" presentation whose characters and events betray time and space, travelling between years to connect with each other...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Assassins Resurrected | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...professor blushed and said, "So this is the way people betray your deepest, darkest secrets...

Author: By Quentin A. Palfrey, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Heroes Prof. Surprised By 50th Birthday Party | 10/23/1992 | See Source »

...sometimes Gabriel's lyrics betray his inexperience at writing love songs. Bad rhyme abounds. In "Secret World," Gabriel sings, "Seeing things that were not there/ On a wing, on a prayer/ In this state of disrepair." Us exhibits the same flaws as U2's generally slick Achtung Baby, lyrics suffer when the Irish protest band recorded a dance-rock album...

Author: By Dante E. A. ramos, | Title: Peter Gabriel Abandons Role as King of PC Pop | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

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