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Twenty feet. I kept walking, instinctively flexing inside my winter jacket. I tried to act as though images of tomorrow's Herald headlines--"Black Toughs Mug Harvard Student in Brutal Yard Assault"--were not racing through my mind...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Liberal, Open-Minded, Racist? | 4/12/1990 | See Source »

...true, The Crimson rarely boasts headlines such as "Subramania!" or "Radcliffe: Pillar of Strength." And unlike the Gazette, we never ran a story reporting that "March is Mug Month." We apologize for these oversights...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: A. Kinder, Gentler Crimson | 3/13/1990 | See Source »

Harvard police last month showed mug shots of several men arrested in the Science Center's basement bathroom to a former Lesley College student who claims he was dragged from the lavatory and raped more than two years ago, according to University officials...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Man Shown Mugs in Sci. Ctr. Rape Case | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...That message meant at least as much to Bush as the gloating of his political advisers over the payoff at home. To his credit, he seemed genuinely embarrassed when the bumptious Republican National Committee chairman Lee Atwater rushed to treat Noriega like Willie Horton, the murderer and rapist whose mug shot figured so prominently in the 1988 campaign -- a bad guy that good Americans love to hate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Operation Mismatch | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Emperor of the Turks. But seizing Noriega and bringing him back to the U.S. in chains is a similar callow triumphalist flourish by President George Bush, the former wimp. Modern media saved Bush the necessity of lugging Noriega in a cage to future summits and election rallies. That prison mug shot of the humiliated former dictator became an instant worldwide image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Speak Softly and Carry a Cage | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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