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...allowed to hear only about Rodriguez’s three prior assault and battery convictions, they will now be able to learn that Rodriguez once egged a passing car and then attacked one of its riders, hit his sister in the eye with a cup and then tried to knife his brother-in-law and repeatedly beat his former girlfriend, according to the Associated Press...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Manslaughter Retrial Begins for Former Grad Student | 11/5/2007 | See Source »

...track his fertilizer and pesticide use and the food and drug intake of every cow. It's no accident that agriculture's productivity growth consistently outpaces the rest of the economy--or that farms with million-dollar revenues are the fastest-growing agricultural sector. "We started with a corn knife and a scoop shovel, and look what's happened," he chuckles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Our Farm Policy Is Failing | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Violence is still a significant problem in Boston’s public high schools, according to a recent study by a center at the Harvard School of Public Health. More than 40 percent of male high school students reported having carried a knife and almost 40 percent of male students said they have been assaulted, according to the study, compiled by the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center. Of the students who had witnessed violence or been victims of violence, few had been through counseling, said Ann Scales, a spokeswoman for the Boston Public Health Commission. She said a high number...

Author: By Vidya B. Viswanathan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Violence Plagues Local Schools | 10/23/2007 | See Source »

...Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” the group decides it might be a good idea to stay the night at the Bates Motel. They sprint past Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson and barricade themselves in a room. After a female companion dies in a tragic banana-knife-shower-prank accident, Wes and crew evacuate the room and proceed to get kicked down a flight of stairs by an evil Paris Hilton. Finally, just like the ending of Hitchcock’s “Psycho,” Wes runs into himself dressed as an old woman...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Puddle of Mudd, "Psycho" | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

...last and best-known book, 1993’s “Jesus’ Son,” he demonstrated his mastery of short fiction. In stories such as “Emergency,” in which a man comes into an ER with a hunting knife buried in his forehead, Johnson illustrated a genius for images that would haunt and nag well after the actual book was put down. He proved he had an almost instinctive understanding of language, forming sentences that were simultaneously lyrical and rough. They seemed to read themselves; the words leapt...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Vietnam Novel Nothing But ‘Smoke’ and Mirrors | 10/12/2007 | See Source »

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