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According to a report in the Boston Sunday Globe, the incident took place at 364 Rindge Ave., the home of Laverne Daniels, whose 16-year-old daughter Tasha was hosting the party. Daniels posted signs prohibiting smoking, drinking, drugs and firearms, and even had her cousin frisk the approximately 50 invitees for weapons...

Author: By Ethan M. Tucker, | Title: 3 Shoot in Alewife Housing Complex | 1/10/1994 | See Source »

...close with a query to our esteemed Supreme Court justices: If religion is so dangerous that it and it alone must be banned from public space, why not go all the way? Frisk kids for crosses and yarmulkes when they come into school. Instead of metal detectors, let's have Bible detectors in those hallways. And that problematic "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance has to go. I guarantee you will soon see a marked change in the quality, moral seriousness, and sense of direction of America's public school students...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Bible Detectors | 5/21/1993 | See Source »

Meanwhile, Madonna has some great lines ("Aren't you gonna frisk me?") and sports more than one outrageously sultry outfit (if you think the front of some of those dresses are something, wait til you see the backs of them!). But in the end, she, too, is disappointing, mainly because she plays a loser...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Cool Colors Do Not A Great Movie Make | 6/29/1990 | See Source »

Prejean's guilt was never in dispute. Early on the morning of July 2, 1977, Louisiana state trooper Donald Cleveland stopped Prejean and his brother Joseph on a routine traffic violation. As Cleveland began to frisk the argumentative Joseph, Dalton crept behind the car, pulled out a pistol and fired two shots into the trooper's head. Prejean had also killed a taxi driver during an aborted robbery when he was 14. "I'm not bloodthirsty," insisted the officer's widow Candy Cleveland the morning before the execution. "But what kind of person am I supposed to be? I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Life in His Hands; Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...then observe him at a shopping mall as he sells a small bag of phony cocaine. Next comes a class in simple arrest, when agents burst into a fleabag motel to capture an unarmed John as he lies in bed with a make-believe prostitute. Agents learn how to frisk suspects, read them their rights, and complete arrest forms. Instructors, all of whom are former agents, carefully critique every arrest, providing pointers on how best to subdue a struggling suspect or slip on handcuffs. No detail seems to go unnoticed. At one recent training session, a future agent was told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

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