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PARIS: Talk about pounding the pavement. Angling for votes to add to his National Front party's surprising 15 percent returns in last Sunday's first round of elections, fiery right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen found himself instead in a slugfest with some 30 hecklers in the crime-plagued Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie. In the tumult, Le Pen wound up striking one youth who had shoved him and lunging after others in the jeering, egg-hurling crowd. One man who may wish he had been there, sticks and stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fracas on the Fringe | 5/30/1997 | See Source »

When a large nine-year-old boy aptly named "Brock" permanently scarred my forehead by compressing it into the pavement with his backside in front of my elementary school, I went home and watched a Yankee game. Don Mattingly would never sit on anyone's head...

Author: By Jamal K. Greene, | Title: An Open Letter to Marv Albert | 5/21/1997 | See Source »

...Canaday F room, the wind (something I'm usually quite fond of) blew my alarm clock off its former resting place on my window sill to its final resting place on the steps of the dorm. Consequentially, my alarm clock broke into several pieces upon hitting the pavement. In my daze, I decided that this was an inconsequential occurrence and promptly slept, not surprisingly, for a long time. This must be the reason for the rule against removing window screens. The clock is in pieces just when I needed it the most. --Anonymous

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIDBITS | 5/14/1997 | See Source »

...Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project and shot a young mother of four at point-blank range who was protesting against police brutality. Both the Klan and the police engage in beating and killing poor blacks and other minorities, and when the Chicago police saw the Klan hit the pavement, they retaliated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Protest the Ku Klux Klan | 4/24/1997 | See Source »

...help illuminating the area with the headlights of her car, the better to fix his flat. According to those stories, the witness supposedly left the scene because she saw a man with a pistol, who tapped on her car window. She then returned and found Ennis dead on the pavement next to his Mercedes. She supposedly saw a car fleeing but could not identify the make. The police have announced that something was taken from the crime scene, but Williams would not be specific. On Saturday the L.A.P.D. announced that the motive for killing Cosby was probably robbery. They also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'HE WAS MY HERO' | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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