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...spoke, her clear voice cracking for the first time that day. "Yes," she said, "this is Medgar in his casket." The photograph showed the exhumed body of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who had been shot and killed in 1963; even in his coffin he wore a gold N.A.A.C.P. pin on his lapel. Evers had been taken from his grave, and his widow had been called to testify because white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was on trial for his murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Going the Last Mile with Medgar | 2/7/1994 | See Source »

...Eagles tallied their only points when Boston College's 190-pound Peter Folan earned a pin at the 44 second mark of the first period...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Wrestlers Take Down Tigers, Eagles | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

Vitagliano started things off in the 118-pound division with a quick pin at 1:38 of the first period...

Author: By Anand S. Joshi, | Title: Wrestlers Take Down Tigers, Eagles | 2/5/1994 | See Source »

Here lives the "poetry board," a field of blue construction paper pricked by pin-sized holes, fluttering with an army of white paper banners. This is the battleground itself, a place where writers tack up their poems, and critics tear them down-figuratively, never literally--or offer advice. The warriors: anonymous scribblers. The shot: a verse like this one, by a mysterious poet, "Tokio Rose...

Author: By R.i. Wilson, | Title: Lamont Poetry Board | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

...store's merchandise, however, is not limited to condoms. It boasts an array of erotic games--"Pin the Boobs on the Babe," and "Pin the Macho on the Man," for instance--clothing, instruction manuals, vibrators and a large selection of lubricants...

Author: By Thomas D. Horan jr., | Title: New Condom Store Opens | 2/2/1994 | See Source »

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