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...shot to death two New York City subway riders (BABY-FACED BUTCHER! cried the headlines). In the eleven years since then, he tried, while briefly out of prison, to rob and knife a 72-year-old half-blind man. He has also stabbed a prison guard, smashed a lead pipe into another guard's skull, set his cell on fire seven times, choked a secretary, battered a reformatory teacher with a nail-studded club, tried to blow up a truck, sodomized inmates, beat up a psychiatrist and mailed a death threat to Ronald Reagan. Bosket claims to have committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Won't Kill, I'll Just Maim | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard police car patrolling the Business School reports a water hazard caused by a broken underground pipe. A puddle several feet deep has formed and the officer estimates the water is flowing out at a rate of about 25 gallons a minute...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Pounding the Beat With Harvard's Finest | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

...leak unexplainedly stops. It appears that the pipe is connected to a sprinkler system run by a timer. An engineer will respond to correct the problem...

Author: By Joshua A. Gerstein, | Title: Pounding the Beat With Harvard's Finest | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Rage? Upon arrest, police said, the boys joked and rapped and sang. Asked why he beat her head with a lead pipe, Yusef Salaam was quoted by investigators as saying "It was fun." The boys have not yet been taught to say they did it because of rage, pain and despair, because of the sins whites have visited upon them and their ancestors. But they will be taught. By trial time, they will be well versed in the language of liberal guilt and exoneration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Crime And Responsibility | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

...assaulting one hapless victim after another. Finally, one pack came upon a 28-year-old woman jogging alone past a grove of sycamore trees. According to police, they chased her into a gully, then spent the next half an hour beating her senseless with a rock and a metal pipe, raping her and leaving her for dead. When she was found three hours later, she had lost three-quarters of her blood and had lapsed into a coma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilding in The Night | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

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