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...asked the woman for directions, and as the victim was giving them to him, he began to grope...

Author: By David M. Debartolo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer School Students Report Indecent Assault | 7/21/2000 | See Source »

According to some residents, Allen, formerly a guard for Security Systems Inc. (SSI), allegedly tried to grope her during the encounter and grabbed her violently by the shoulders...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SSI Guard Accused of Assaulting Student | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

Much of the novel's success was due to the long passages of indirect discourse in which the characters reexamine their pasts and attempt to grope towards a solution. Hicks dispenses with most of these passages in the film because he does not need them. He knows that much can be said with few words, and he makes the most of it, turning Cedars into a movie about astonishing cinematography and fluid camera work. While the movie occasionally threatens to become too impressed with its own rapturousness (a problem that James Newton Howard's saccharine score does little to help...

Author: By John W. Baxindine, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Stylish Snow a Feast for the Eyes | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

Since that night, DeAngelis has had to grope around in a darkness most of us will never know. The entire nation has wondered why Harris and Klebold did what they did, but imagine wondering whether you could have stopped it. The uncertainties of Columbine will be with DeAngelis forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Columbine Tapes: The Principal: Could He Have Done More? | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...statements and counterstatements piled ever higher, I wondered if there was a thong or late-night pizza in the stack somewhere, a grope in a private study while a head of state was arriving for dinner or, better yet, some tapes, preferably of phone sex. It's going to take a lot to engage a jaded, sated public in yet another one of these cases, exhausted as we are by years of Clinton scandals and the sexual-harassment suit of the century, which came to resemble an Italian opera. Everyone is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexual Harassment, Chapter 999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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