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...after all the men had been accommodated. She bridled but obeyed, and came back week after week to face the same treatment. After arguing with her for a few weeks, the starter gave Lowell a Saturday-morning tee time. As Lowell finished the 17th hole and drove her cart to the next tee, three club members, including a ranking member of the golf committee, met her with curses. One picked up her ball and put it in his pocket, shook his finger in her face and threatened, "You will never hit another golf ball again." Another man, she says, urinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Report: Putt For Dough | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

Meanwhile, they want revenge on Cash. Last week an unusual coalition of Muslim and Jewish activists, mothers and radio deejays drove 400 miles north from Los Angeles to stage a protest in Berkeley's historic Sproul Plaza in hopes of ostracizing the college sophomore--if not ejecting him altogether from the University of California system. "This isn't a guy who should be going to Berkeley. He should be going to San Quentin," said an irate Conway. "We're going to do everything possible to get his ass kicked out of Berkeley and make his life as miserable as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Samaritan | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...pickup truck," she said. As the woman spoke, Dempsey, who was released on her own recognizance, happened to pull up in her Jaguar. "You've got something to say?" Dempsey yelled at the tenant. "You'll have plenty to say on the 15th!" As Dempsey drove off, the trembling woman said, "You heard her. I'm getting evicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Little Whorehouse In Jersey | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...Dillard drove across the Cascades in central Washington to watch and write about a "Total Eclipse" of the sun. She connected the eclipse to the mind's fragility: "A loosened circle of evening sky...was an abrupt black body out of nowhere; it was a flat disc; it was almost over the sun. That is when there were screams. At once this disc of sky slid over the sun like a lid. The sky snapped over the sun like a lens cover. The hatch in the brain slammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Not Observing Nature | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...Belfast TV station. "There's a bomb, courthouse," it says. In the event, people evacuated from the courthouse were led directly into the street where the car bomb stood. TIME London Bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand says it is quite possible that the terrorists intended to target the courthouse, "drove round for a bit, couldn't find a space, and parked in a different street." Such actions will require one heck of a Real explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Bombers in a 'Real' Mess | 8/19/1998 | See Source »

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