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...partisan squabbling been that it almost erupted into a fistfight on the floor of the state senate. "Why don't you go back where they steal elections?" snapped Robert Jubelirer, the Republican leader, to Vincent Fumo, a Democratic committee chairman, whose reaction to the comment was so violent a colleague was forced to hold him back. "Get a psychiatrist," the Republican taunted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This Seat Stolen? | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...Prof. Camille Paglia at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. If you need to reach her, it's probably wise to follow these instructions closely. In her speech at the K-School Thursday night, Paglia explained that she was fired from Bennington College for getting into a "fistfight" at a disco party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW SPEAK | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

...angry." After he was kicked out of Monroe Junior High for misconduct, Bonnie sent him to Boys Town for three years. But Jeff grew more rebellious. He got his first gun, a .25-cal. semiautomatic, in his mid-teens. A year later, he dodged his first bullet; after a fistfight, his opponent returned with a rifle and opened fire. That same year, he did his first drive-by. "We shot at a house, just to let them know that the games were over," he says. Although he doesn't believe he ever hit anyone, he confesses that "one time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Boy and His Gun | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...that at one point Clinton exclaimed, "You mean I flew all the way across the Pacific to negotiate this?" Miyazawa ordered his bargainers not to let Clinton go away empty-handed, and they complied -- though only after arguing so fiercely among themselves that two Japanese officials got into a fistfight in the Okura Hotel at 3 a.m. Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveling Salesman | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...rest of the set didn't move much from that sublime spot; under the high-volume treatment the music got, even the ballads sounded primed for moshing. The boozy crowd, dotted with plastered forty-year-olds ready for a fistfight, obliged fiercely. Half the crowd was in the air, and those who weren't were hurling each other around the floor...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Buffalo Tom: Moshing with the Middle-Aged Crowd | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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