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...those spurred by robbery--consider the horrible sight of Matthew Shepard beaten repeatedly and left to die on a fence because he was gay, or of James Byrd Jr. dragged to his death behind a truck in Texas last summer because he was black. These are among the most heinous of crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislation Not Superfluous | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...Dartboard is in a good mood this week and we can forgive those out-of-towners. When it comes to the accessibility of Sever Hall, students are the most heinous offenders. Dartboard condemns those among us who feel compelled to dilly-dally in front of the building conspicuously chatting with friends, smoking cigarettes for all the world to see. Must you advertise your social adroitness and congest the step with your morning schmooze? Puh-leeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...book of the same name by Bo Dietl, the main character of the movie. The real Dietl gained recognition when he caught two men who raped and nearly killed a nun in a New York City convent in 1981, resolving what then-mayor Ed Koch called "the most heinous crime in the history of New York City." The movie includes this event, as well as Dietl's friendly relations with members of the mob and his problems with the police station hierarchy. It looks like screenplay writer Jeremy Iacone, however, relied on more than the book for inspiration. He seems...

Author: By Joseph F. Cooper, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Disconnection Destroys 'One Tough Cop' | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...Most heinous, in the course of the parade one man jumped behind the truck, clung to the bumper and was slowly dragged down the street--a cruel reference to the dragging death of James Byrd earlier this year in Jasper, Texas, by three white...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Two Boroughs, Two Races, One Problem | 9/16/1998 | See Source »

...crime itself but by reports of callous and reprehensible statements attributed to the student. I had the same reaction myself," he said. But rules are rules; Cash violated no law. "Most people seem to be under the impression that I was in a position to stop the heinous crime," Cash wrote in an angry e-mail sent to the San Francisco Chronicle and the Daily Californian. "I did not witness the alleged molestation and murder." Staying mostly out of sight in his dorm room in modernistic Putnam Hall, Cash gave no interviews. His lawyer, Mark Werksman, however, said Cash "regrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Samaritan | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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