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...bank teller you were robbed at gunpoint twice, so why didn't you just hypnotize them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scott Adams | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...perpetual Earth Day. "As we prepare for Y2K, something surprising and quite wonderful is going to happen," writes Eric Utne, the journal's founder and the editor of Y2K Citizen's Action Guide. "We're going to get to know our neighbors." And not by stealing their larders at gunpoint, either. Emerging from the pamphlet's lofty talk of "intui-technology," "core heart values" and the "inner-information highway" is a message of love and spirituality that makes one wish it were New Year's Eve tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take the World...Please | 1/18/1999 | See Source »

...then sat down. The employee said he noticed another male behind the counter. This suspect grabbed the employee and demanded to know where the safe was. The employee said the suspect had a gun in his hand. The suspect ordered employees into the refrigerator, but had one at gunpoint open the safe and remove the money...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Log of Cambridge Police Activity | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

Barry Rosen did not have to imagine. He was there. As the embassy's press officer in 1979, he was not only taken hostage at gunpoint but also accused of leading a spy ring and subjected to a mock trial. His punishment included months in a barren prison cell, where an always burning light bulb and constant stress made it almost impossible for him to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Iran Be Forgiven? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...remove anything from the movie, he told Weinstein, but if Nike were to build a facility in Flint, Mich., he'd add a new scene. Heartened, Weinstein whipped out a notepad. Would that be a shoe factory or a warehouse? Moore, who can't keep a straight face at gunpoint, fought back tears of incredulity. Anything that'll employ 500 people at a livable wage, he replied. Weinstein promised to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sneakers In Tinseltown | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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