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...loated around the streets sometimes, leaned against a store front with my hat pushed back and one boot hooked back around the other--hell, you've probably seen me if you've ever been out this way--I've stood like that, looking nice and friendly and stupid, like I wouldn't piss if my pants were on fire. And all the time I'm laughing myself sick inside. Just watching the people...

Author: By Paull E. Hejinian, | Title: A Deputy Gone Mad | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

Harvard outshot Dartmouth 18-12 over the course of the game, and Crimson goalie Chad Reilly was forced to make only four saves, while his Green counterpart, John Scott, had to stop eight Harvard shots on goal. But Reilly had no chance on Stanojevic's well-placed penalty boot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penalty Kick Pins Men Booters | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

...plan. "I'm afraid this bill % is the legislative equivalent of crack," said Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank, one of the handful of Congressmen who voted against the package. "It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system. And it's expensive to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rolling Out the Big Guns | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Secretary of Defense Richard Perle had never been there. Last week Perle, as one of the key members of a seven-man U.S. mission to Moscow, finally found himself in the land that he, like President Reagan, considers to be the "evil empire," and talking about arms control to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into the Evil Empire | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

Overcrowded prisons and the high cost of housing inmates are prompting more states to consider alternative types of sentencing like boot-camp prisons. Louisiana, South Carolina and possibly Michigan are planning similar programs. Oklahoma and Georgia within the past three years have opened camps as successful as the one in Parchman. Says David Jordan of the Georgia department of corrections: "We tear them down, then build them up, we hope, with a sense of responsibility, respect for others and a work ethic--things most of them have never had in their lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Inmate and a Gentleman | 8/11/1986 | See Source »

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