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...starter's pistol fired two blanks to open the season for the Harvard women's soccer team--just the way senior goalkeeper Brooke Donahoe likes...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Donahoe Collects Ivy Honors | 9/22/1993 | See Source »

...section of the McDonald's in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when he noticed Dion Terres, 25. "I looked up and said, 'Oh, he's got a gun,' but I thought it wasn't real," says Hauptmann. Moments later, Terres yelled, "Everybody out of here!" and began shooting a .44-cal. Magnum pistol. As 10 panicked patrons dove for the exit door, Terres unloaded four shots. Two middle-aged customers were killed, and Hauptmann was shot in the right forearm. Terres turned the fourth bullet on himself, splattering his brain on the walls and ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger in the Safety Zone | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...June 27, operatives belonging to GSG-9, the country's antiterrorist unit, attempted to arrest suspects Wolfgang Grams, 40, and his girlfriend Birgit Hogefeld, 37, at the train station in Bad Kleinen, a small town in eastern Germany. Officials reported that as police closed in, Grams pulled a pistol, killed an officer and was then gunned down in the brief shootout that followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On Track 4 | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

...Steinmetz and his R.A.F. companions sat talking in the station / restaurant, 54 officers deployed around the building to close in as the three departed. The police botched the job. When they pounced, they grabbed Hogefeld and Steinmetz, believing him to be Grams. Instead of fleeing, though, Grams drew a pistol from his waistband and opened fire. One officer was wounded; a second fell dead. Officers saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" from the station platform onto track 4. A medical team tried to treat his wounds as Grams lay sprawled across the ties, but he died on the spot from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On Track 4 | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

John Woo's last Hong Kong movie, the action-traction Hard Boiled, was basically Die Hard in a hospital. A zillion bad guys are terrorizing the place, and our indestructible cop hero must mow them down, holding a bazooka- size pistol in one hand -- and a newborn child in the other. No problem. Blam! and a villain's blood splatters a maternity-ward window. Boom! and a few more miscreants eat carpet. Surveying the scene, the cop shields the baby's | eyes and says jauntily, "Hey, X-rated action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Woo: The Last Action Hero | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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