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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans had no knowledge of who stole the pens, but she clearly disapproved of the heist...

Author: By John P. Posch, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Thief Absconds With Thayer Message Board Pens | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

...value of a plot." The achievement of Urban Legend is that it gives you the visuals to go with all those stories you've heard before, because, God knows, we no longer have the brainpower to see stories in our heads anymore. Stories like the infamous kidney heist, or the familiar axe-murderer in the backseat of the car, are incarnated on film for the weak-at-mind. It's a film where everyone can be the loud-mouthed ass to cry, "I know what happens next...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No 'Legend' This Fall Season: Bland and Brainless | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Compromising couples, look no further. The Great Date Movie of Summer 98 has arrived; the screen adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel Out of Sight has it all. Guys will like the jewel heist. Girls will like the romance. And anyone not staring down the dating divide will just like the movie, period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Clooney's Latest Makes Great Date Material | 7/10/1998 | See Source »

There are enough complications in this relationship to fill a book--or a screenplay. But for Leonard and his smart adapters--director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank--that's just a promising beginning. There's a tricky diamond heist to be not quite perpetrated and many wild cards to be dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Short Takes: Out of Sight | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

Just one week later, bullets flew through acrowded Harvard Square as an armored car drivertried to choke an attempted heist. The onlyvictims of his gunfire were two of the assailants.But the March 2 shootout made it an eventfulafternoon for passerby...

Author: By David L. Greene, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: This Is Our Harvard | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

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