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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spur of the moment kind of thing. It had a prank-like feel to it," the first-year said. "We made a mistake. We didn't think the matter [through] and acted impulsively...

Author: By Benjamin R. Kaplan, | Title: First-Years Disciplined For Taking Union Table | 12/18/1995 | See Source »

...might have been done as a prank. Last week was hazing week," she added. "It's upsetting. Let's hope it'll be returned." Last week, various final clubs were inducting their new members...

Author: By Nelson C. Hsu, | Title: Adams Banner Is Stolen | 12/14/1995 | See Source »

...people invited by the French to witness the explosions, write a few postcards of Mururoa and drop them into the PX mail slot, get the French to search for them, and perhaps stall the first test. The stunt is planned as a classic Greenpeace "action," a dead-serious, nonviolent prank executed at considerable peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEAD-SERIOUS PRANK: A GREENPEACE OPERATION | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

Some of these suspicions arise naturally from Carcaterra's incredible first-person tale. He and his three best friends, so he says in the book, grow up in Hell's Kitchen, a working-class neighborhood on the West Side of midtown Manhattan. An adolescent prank in the summer of 1967 goes terribly amiss and causes serious injury to an elderly man. As a result, the four friends are sent to an upstate New York correctional facility for boys, where they are repeatedly raped, beaten and tortured, physically and mentally, by four sadistic guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: TINY PIECES OF FLESH | 7/31/1995 | See Source »

...letter he sent the San Francisco Chronicle to blow up an unspecified airliner at Los Angeles International Airport. Officials maintained tight airline and postal security despite a second letter from the Unabomber to the New York Times boasting that the threat was a hoax -- in his words, "one last prank." In yet a third communication at week's end, the bomber said he would desist from further killing attempts if the Times or Washington Post agreed to publish his anti-industrial, antitechnology manifesto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JUNE 25 - JULY 1 | 7/10/1995 | See Source »

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