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...High last winter. "I wasn't trying to be hard or anything. It was just for protection," says the lanky 18-year-old, who wears three gold earrings and favors a black baseball cap emblazoned with a marijuana leaf. "I don't know why, but stuff just started getting hectic, real rough. I mean you can get jumped for no reason." The small, .25-cal. Raven pistol, which he bought from a friend, fit snugly in the pocket of his winter vest. He even took it along to his telemarketing job after work, where he earns $6.50 an hour manning...

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

...said a great deal of effort will go into the events tomorrow and Sunday. "I wouldn't characterize it as hectic--I feel they're very professional and very pleasant to deal with," Garber said...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Harvard Hosts Special Games | 6/25/1993 | See Source »

...lines at each other in an excited shriek. Both characters often seem to be engaged less in witty verbal sparring than in shrewish quarreling. The fault here lies with director Alexander Franklin and Elisabeth Mayer, who seem to lose control of the play's pace. The dialogue moves beyond hectic into overload. The tension and excitement, rather than growing gradually between them, has built too fast and too early. The long-deterred climax is simply anti-climactic. Tighter direction and a gradual build-up of tension might have served to accentuate the dream like quality that the plot requires...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Not Quite A Night to Remember | 4/29/1993 | See Source »

...typical day, Meeks divides her time between coaching six fourth graders through a lesson in estimation and refereeing a hectic game of "Dictionary" in which the children attempted to guess the true meaning of a difficult word...

Author: By Sarah E. Scrogin, | Title: Someone They Can Trust | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...experience as a Navy ROTC midshipman was a very limited taste of military life. Except for the hectic boot camp at Quantico, I lived like any other college student. Regular active-duty military personnel live full-time in barracks racks, ships and submarines. And although all military personnel go through some kind of boot camp, subsequent service life is generally more normal (a relative term), allowing the common worries and concerns of life to creep back...

Author: By David L. Bosco, | Title: Living With Gays in the Military | 2/12/1993 | See Source »

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