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Crowley secretly raided valuable book caches throughout the University, police and library officials said. He cut 400 or 500 pages from the texts with razor blades and stole about 40 entire volumes, according to police...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Museum Robber Nabbed | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

From coast to coast, people are sealing off their homes and neighborhoods with iron gates, razor-ribbon wire and iron spikes. The home of Billy Davis in Pico Rivera, southeast of Los Angeles, offers a glimpse of the paranoia that is fast turning homes into fortresses. His two-story frame house is outfitted with motion-sensitive floodlights, video monitors, infrared alarms and a % spiked fence topped with razor wire. A metal cage surrounds the patio. Bars adorn every window. A Doberman pinscher guards the yard. And a security guard patrols the driveway. "The wrong people are behind bars," says Anne...

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

...pulls it off well. There's a hidden edge of steel to all of his genial suggestions to eat Quaker Oats after all. Holly Hunter as Tammy, the secretary/lover of a private detective killed while digging into the firm is a delight--she goes from persona to persona with razor-sharp acting and timing...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Lights, Camera, Legal Action! | 7/2/1993 | See Source »

...others, the motives are more unusual. "Security guards have placed foreign objects in products, such as a razor blade in a tomato, to impress supervisors with their vigilance," reports Dietz. "They're similar to the ) volunteer fireman who sets a fire and then discovers it." The strangest motive, though, may be the need to gain sympathy as a victim. "Just as some people induce signs of illness in themselves to enjoy the benefits of the patient's role, others fake tampering to enjoy the benefits -- emotional support, nurturing -- of the victim's role. Such people will also stage their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Weird Case, Baby? Uh Huh! | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...Finance Committee, where Democrats hold only 11 out of 20 seats. Just as liberals bemoan Clinton's new tack, the Louisiana Senator applauds it. At home last week, as he rode along in his white van toward a forum at H.L. Bourgeois High School in Gray, Louisiana, an electric razor in one hand and a phone in the other, Breaux declared his conviction that the President's acknowledgment of the New Democrats will get his budget through. "Bill Clinton's getting back to the middle, and it's the right thing to do. Thank goodness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Is 'My Center'? | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

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