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...fellow hungry Harvard students at Tommy's, the Leverett Grille or Store 24. Yet while it's nice to keep the businesses in the Square healthy, I'm more concerned about the health of my bank account and of my body. A money-saving compromise is the heist of apples and other pieces of fruit from the dining halls, an act that has become a nightly ritual for many...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Charge of the Night Brigade | 11/23/1996 | See Source »

DIED. JAMES ("Jimmy the Gent") BURKE, 64, clotheshorse, gangster and suspected mastermind of the $6 million Lufthansa heist of 1978; of cancer; in Buffalo, New York. Robert De Niro played Burke in the film Goodfellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 29, 1996 | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

According to one of the students who participated in the table heist, the first-years were driven more by a desire to play five-card stud that evening than to redecorate their dorm room...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: First-Years Disciplined For Taking Union Table | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...heist was short-lived, however, as a member of the administration witnessed the students taking the table into Mower Hall. After a room search that evening, the table was located and the students turned themselves in, said the first-year...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: First-Years Disciplined For Taking Union Table | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

This Mann achieves with truly epic sweep, maniacal conviction and awesome technical proficiency. He announces his intentions in an opening sequence that may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film. He proceeds to a crazily orchestrated bank heist that goes awry and finishes in a wild firefight on a crowded downtown street that is a masterpiece of sustained invention. He ends with a chase that takes Pacino and De Niro into wholly original realms of hellishness, the back end of an airport, where their passions are nearly drowned out by the thunderous comings and goings of heedless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DUEL IN THE BLANKNESS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

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