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Real New Yorkers don't gawk from the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty. But, just like tourists, even jaded natives love to stroll through Central Park, maybe kick back in a paddleboat, nosh a hot dog, gather for the world's best people watching. It's an oasis--today a safe one, usually--so how on June 11 did it become a hunting ground for a roving pack of sexual aggressors? How did four or five dozen guys, some obviously drunk and stoned, get away with groping and in some cases stripping as many as 47 women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bad Sunday In The Park | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...asked, she answered: On vacation in Santo Domingo over spring break, they were in a paddleboat and Martin was shooting pictures. When he ran out of film, he asked Perez to hand him a new canister from her bag. When she reached in, the canister was strangely heavy--with a ring...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: To Have and To Hold | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...most extraordinary thing was that the Germans did not machine-gun the thousands of men on the beach. The Stukas did attack the boats, and I remember one in particular, a paddleboat that had been bombed and caught fire. There were maybe 100 to 200 men grouped in the back of the boat because the front < was in flames. But the wind kept whipping the fire back on them, and the men were crying. It was a kind of moan, but a collective moan, an inhuman moan. I tried to drag a man out of the water and up onto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembrance . . . It Was Awful | 9/4/1989 | See Source »

...leader of Britain's House of Commons, Herbert Morrison, with his wife and 400 of his East Lewisham, London constituents, took a paddleboat down the Thames to Southend for a picnic, during which Politician Morrison played prestidigitator and performed a minor political hat trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Judgments | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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