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...alarming factor is the emergence of a new breed of teenage killers who seem to have lost all respect for human life. The idea of having a knife or a , gun has moved beyond the drug subculture to infect a large segment of all young people. A CDC study found that 1 out of 5 high school students enters the classroom carrying a gun, knife or club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: The Deadliest Year Yet | 1/13/1992 | See Source »

...kind of knife edge, as I always thought it would be. Because to an extent I've been a hostage to the hostage situation. Whenever people have tried to make my case very public, to debate it very noisily, it has been suggested that to do so would be to prolong the hostages' plight. Now, since the hostages are out, I am able to speak more freely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Speech Is Life Itself: SALMAN RUSHDIE | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...chief of staff's many enemies in Washington saw an opportunity to take revenge. Republican leader Robert Dole, who has seethed since Sununu helped Bush win the 1988 New Hampshire primary by suggesting that Dole was a closet advocate of higher taxes, coldly spurned him. Then Dole twisted the knife by describing Sununu's phone call to a television interviewer. Some White House officials and G.O.P. political strategists were miffed that Sununu was trying to end run the President. Bush himself was reported to be "chapped" by what seemed to be an attempt to blackmail him into retaining Sununu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Clearing the Decks | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

...mile front. The Fritzes were thrown back by its ferocity. A German reporter assigned to the front recalls coming upon a soldier staggering out of a wood screaming "Aah! Come and help me! I can't see. They've gouged out my eyes." Soldiers had attacked him with a knife, slashing his eyes but taking care to let him live. "There!" said one of the Russians. "Go to the other German dogs and tell them we'll destroy them all. We'll cut out their eyes and send what's left to Siberia . . . Now get going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War in Europe | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...even get that far. Sex is too complicated; relationships too difficult. I'm losing touch with my fellow man; I have an urge that creeps like chocolate syrup up my pant legs when I see a woman I can't have: to take out a big bowie knife...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: The Lost Wednesday | 11/27/1991 | See Source »

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