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...Fuquay-Varina, about 15 miles from Raleigh. Just before the tape goes dead -- police believe the phone was ripped from the wall -- she can be heard screaming, "Don't harm my baby!" Jackson knows what happened next. Over the next several minutes she was beaten bloody with a mop handle and raped. The attacker was a neighbor who had apparently become infatuated with her. The woman, who survived, is 22. The accused rapist, Andre Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: When Kids Go Bad | 9/19/1994 | See Source »

...hallway garbage drop that has been left open, with twine flapping loose; someone had apparently tied a gun inside but hastily wrenched it loose. Inside apartments, the officer relates, he has found cocaine in a container of Comet cleanser, guns hidden inside toilets and, once, under water in a mop bucket. And that was when gang members agreed to let him in, thinking they had hidden drugs and firearms so cleverly that Ghost would pronounce their quarters clean. Imagine what he might find if he could just bust into any apartment he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come on in. No, Stay Out. | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...most importantly, Tour Clones play well in the Masters only before Sunday, when the mad dogs and Englishmen (or) Welshmen, or Germans, or Spaniards) come out in the noonday sun to mop up the rest of the field...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Noble Loser | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...getting tough resulted in public safety, Louisiana citizens would be the safest in the nation. They're not. Louisiana has the highest murder rate among states. Prison, like the police and the courts, has a minimal impact on crime because it is a response after the fact, a mop-up operation. It doesn't work. The idea of punishing the few to deter the many is counterfeit because potential criminals either think they're not going to get caught or they're so emotionally desperate or psychologically distressed that they don't care about the consequences of their actions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Prisons Don't Work | 3/21/1994 | See Source »

...crew of 'Poonsters led by President Brian A.Kelley '94 returned to the dormitory armed with anew table, a vacuum and mop, two dozen white rosesand a violinist. "I'm very sorry," Kelley said ashe attended the students, scrubbed beer off thewall and offered them a $200 gift certificate atGiovanni's, a restaurant in the North...

Author: By Kathryn M. Meneely, | Title: Lampoon Antics Disturb Wig G | 12/8/1993 | See Source »

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