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...barbed-wire-encircled woods outside Williamsburg, Virginia, the Farm looks like a community college, with brick buildings, dorms, a cafeteria and a gym laid out on a bucolic campus. But it also has such uncollegiate features as a mock prison where trainees get to experience solitary confinement, a pistol range where they learn to use firearms, and a private airstrip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA'S YEAR-ROUND CAMP FOR SPIES | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

QUOTE OF NOTE: "Bill Clinton sees America where our children are healthier and safer. Bob Dole sees an America where kids have a nonaddicting cigarette in one hand and a pistol in the other. Lucky for us that kids do not have three hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: PENNSYLVANIA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...deep understanding of the history of technology and his engineer's perspective on scientific revolutions make him a companionable guide. Among his "tests" for recognizing approaching shifts: imagine you have one silver bullet to place in the heart of your toughest competitor; when you start aiming the pistol at a new player, you'll know things are changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: SURVIVING IN DIGITAL TIMES | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCHOOLS FOR SCANDAL | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...black member of the band the Gangster of Love, and the only significant black character in the entire book. Sly is the group's drummer, his last name is Washington, and he lusts after white women, abuses drugs and carries a gun--in other words he's a pistol-toting, coke-snorting caricature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: HAVE GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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