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...didn’t recover a weapon,” said Frank T. Pasquarello, spokesman for Cambridge Police Department (CPD). “It appeared to be a tire iron, could have been a crowbar. When someone is hitting you, it’s hard to describe...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Grad Student Struck, Robbed | 3/11/2005 | See Source »

...been issued for his arrest, and the police have set up a checkpoint outside the house. A cop comes by every three or four hours. In the meantime, we live in limbo. We've now built a big fence and bought four dogs. I sleep with a crowbar under the bed. And when I dream, it's of a legion of weary lawyers intoning "buyer beware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: House of Horrors | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...When the US troops finally arrived, more than 30 minutes after the bombing, they came in force: humvees and battle tanks. The crowd jeered. Soldiers pressing inside the embassy were heckled. The tanks rumbled forward, cutting a path through the throng. Soldiers grabbed a crowbar to help the Iraqis prying the scorched metal of one of the cars to retrieve more bodies. The crowd demanded they step back. "Leave them," a man in a bloodied shirt ordered in Arabic, "they are Iraqis." The crowd backed up his command, chanting "God is great." It took time for the soldiers to drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Car Bomb Attack Rocks Baghdad | 8/7/2003 | See Source »

...should be mighty encouraging to the U.S.'s uncounted millions of uninsured workers to know that their withholding taxes are helping pay for Cheney's round-the-clock medical care, even though these workers couldn't pry their way into their own doctor's office with a crowbar. Isn't there anything that would shame this rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer Administration? Apparently not. GLENN HODGES Memphis, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 9, 2003 | 6/9/2003 | See Source »

...relations between North and South improved. "The men were unhappy," recalls former trainer Yang Dong Su. "There was a lot of tension." On the morning of Aug. 23, 1971, the recruits snapped. One of them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck but survived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Korea's Dirty Dozen | 5/13/2002 | See Source »

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