Word: copse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"These were not innocent little kids," he says. "These kids were rough. Not the majority of Harvard students--I'm talking about the radical bunch of leaders. When the cops came [into University Hall], they all got out, and let the other people get arrested. They were just evil people...
"Because Cornell was so isolated, we never had a situation where the cops came down on us; there was never the kind of crunch that other campuses faced," Murray says.
The most potent writing to be found in any mystery of recent months appears in Jonathan Valin's Extenuating Circumstances (Delacorte; 234 pages; $15.95). His detective, Harry Stoner, yet another of the shopworn ex-cops so beloved of the genre, is hired to investigate the disappearance of a wealthy politician...
Federal drug czar William Bennett is on the brink of declaring Washington the nation's first "high-intensity drug-trafficking area," making the city a "shock-treatment" test case in the war on drugs. He will soon announce a federal-local strike force that will try to close down the...
Where the N.R.A. has always revealed its nature as a paranoid lobby, a political anachronism, is in its rigid ideological belief that any restriction on the private ownership of any kind of hand-held gun leads inexorably to total abolition of all gun ownership -- that, if today the U.S. Government...