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...after an enforced 33-month absence. Still, the cars cruise by and people shout out. "Freak!" yells one girl. "Finish the job," adds a man -- meaning, burn Gallardo. Voreen Siders and some friends stand 50 yards from the house's embers. They are emphatic: they would never set the blaze. But none pretends to be sad. Nearby hangs a notice featuring a long-haired, mustachioed Gallardo, 35, with a description: . . .VIEWED AS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS UNTREATED SEX OFFENDER WITH A VERY HIGH PROBABILITY FOR RE-OFFENSE . . . HAS SADISTIC AND DEVIANT SEXUAL FANTASIES WHICH INCLUDE TORTURE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, HUMAN SACRIFICE, BONDAGE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burn Thy Neighbor | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...behind her in the studio. The mirror reflects her back and, beyond that, the painter, whose posture recalls the image of the distant chamberlain at the end of Velazquez's long chamber. And yet, once you have figured out its setup, seen that the window with its blurred blaze of wintry light is actually a reflection in the mirror, the sense of spatial enigma drops away. You are left with a plain rendition in rather liquid paint of a girl in a red cardigan and an artist in a mustard- colored shirt. The Velazquez references sink back, as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fairfield Porter: Yankee Against the Grain | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...conference recently, Harriman arranged for her to address an international meeting on women's issues. She is transparently proud of her granddaughter Marina Churchill, who is a London barrister. When asked if she would lead an independent life like Marina if she were starting out now, the blue eyes blaze: "Would I? Would I?" Yes, you can bet she would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Now, an Embassy of Her Own: PAMELA HARRIMAN | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

Unending war has become an occupation force, seizing village after village of Bosnia and Herzegovina in its vicious grip. Across trenches and rubble- strewn no-man's-lands reminiscent of World War I, Bosnian and Serb soldiers blaze away on dozens of small battlefields. TIME photographer James Nachtwey spent the past two weeks on one of those battlefields, between Brcko and adjacent Muslim hamlets in northern Bosnia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death As a Way of Life | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...hopes of defusing neo-Nazi violence, Germany's parliament voted overwhelmingly to tighten the country's liberal immigration laws, which had allowed about 1,000 foreigners to enter Germany each day. Despite the vote, suspicious fires broke out in several buildings housing refugees. One blaze killed five Turks, including two young girls, and injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest May 23-29 | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

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