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...human response to rabies can be as savage as the disease's symptoms. In 1986 a rabid cat bit a woman in central Pennsylvania. Before long, a mob armed with shotguns and baseball bats approached an enclosure where an 80-year-old man kept dozens of cats. The group fired shots in the air before cooling down and deciding to back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware Of Rabies | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...surveillance men hired by Jimmy Hoffa. The Teamsters boss even orders Bobby killed, but the would-be assassin, after training his telescopic sight on the couple smooching in a park, chickens out. Good thing, since Mafia boss Sam Giancana shortly thereafter tells Hoffa to lay off because the Mob is "doing a little business" with the Kennedy brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Some Like It Hot | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...flying. "E-mail is the last refuge of a scoundrel," said one. But there were plenty of opponents of the "outing" of Mr. X. "I haven't seen anything posted here that suggests he did anything evil," said a veteran WELL user. "The ugliness here smacks of a lynch mob out for good old-fashioned vengeance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heartbreak In Cyberspace | 7/19/1993 | See Source »

...hard to sort out at times, the problems they face aren't. A 15-year-old boy is falling in with the wrong crowd on the streets. A single mother tries to put her life back together after drug rehabilitation. The manager of a clothing store owned by the Mob is lured into a steroid-fencing scheme by an old friend. A high school basketball star is benched for a bad attitude, ruining his chance to impress a college scout. All the action takes place over a single weekend; there are crises and confrontations, small changes but no big conclusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Easy Solutions Here | 7/12/1993 | See Source »

...pricey cast (Ed Harris, Holly Hunter, Wilford Brimley) make the machinery purr. The writers have corrected the book's dangling threat -- how to confront and cleverly resolve Mitch's brief disloyalty to Abby -- and its stodgy ending. The movie's moral is that however corrupt the Mob is, these lawyers are worse. Better for Mitch to cut a deal with a don than to let the firm stay in business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Arm of The Law | 7/5/1993 | See Source »

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