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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Later in the day, after admiring the Stone Mountain carvings of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Stonewall Jackson and Confederate President Jefferson Davis, [Buchanan] told reporters, "We should have no second-class citizens in America and no second-class states...

Author: By Eryn R. Brown, | Title: Scared Down South | 3/11/1992 | See Source »

Tyrone Sinkler and Ian Moore were standing in a hall of Thomas Jefferson High School, not far from the mayor's security detail. Another student, named Khalil Sumpter, who is 15, allegedly pulled out a .38-cal. revolver and shot Tyrone and Ian at point-blank range. Sumpter had apparently had fistfights with the other boys for weeks. All three had arrest records for robbery and mugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Childhood's End | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

...Thomas Jefferson High is a stolid red-orange-brick block of building set down in an East New York neighborhood of boarded-up row houses. In the past four years, 70 students have been killed, shot, stabbed or permanently injured on the school grounds. According to a report prepared for the New York state assembly and quoted by the New York Daily News, 50% of the 1,900 students have some kind of puncture wound on their body at any given time. "T.J." has a "grieving room," where the students can seek peace and quiet and counseling when these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime Childhood's End | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

Lecture IV: Magneto-Optical Trapping ofMetastable Helium: The (Good and Bad) Role ofCollisions--by Alain Aspect, Morris LoebLecturer on Physics, Institut d'Optique Theoriqueet Apliquee. Jefferson Hall, Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

That's why it's so discouraging to watch the Democratic candidates squabble and bicker when they could be changing the way things work in this country. Mayor David Dinkins was on his way to Thomas Jefferson to visit what it termed one of the most violent high schools in New York when the shooting took place. What should have been an easy media sound-bite ended up as Dinkins trying to comfort an auditorium of terrorized students...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: Despair in Brooklyn | 3/2/1992 | See Source »

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