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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dusk fell on Tulsa's bustling Memorial Drive, Mike Hall, 14, was playing cop -- but the blue-and-white Gran Fury police car he was sitting in was no toy. The driver, patrolman Rick Coleman, had just hauled over a truck for driving without lights. As Coleman climbed out to question the trucker, his passenger couldn't resist temptation. He flicked on the car's red spotlight and played the beam up and down the side of a darkened warehouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting The Brakes on Crime | 9/2/1991 | See Source »

Last week, these coldhearted executioners once again turned to arboreal assassination. In celebration of "Phool's Week"--that time of year when middle-aged Lampy graduates take time off from their jobs as writers for "Babes" and "Rick Dees' Into the Night" to drink grain alcohol and force new recruits to "assume the position"--'Poonsters poisoned the soil in front of the "Castle," an architectural atrocity former Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci has rightfully dubbed a "public urinal." The defouled dirt was intended to hold the seedlings for Freedom Tree II, an innocent flora-to-be nipped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ISSUES | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...added them to the composer credits. Two years ago, the rap group De La Soul was slapped with a $1.7 million suit by the '60s group the Turtles for using an uncredited bite of their 1969 song You Showed Me. M.C. Hammer avoided such problems by sharing credit with Rick James, who wrote Super Freak, before sampling the song for his platinum single, U Can't Touch This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play It Again, Sampler | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

COVER Photograph for TIME by Rick Rickman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

...Rick Bechtel, the supervising architect for the project, says the Inn "will be seen as a real landmark for that end of Harvard Square." The Inn will be administered by Doubletree Hotels and may in the future be converted into an academic office building...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Masterpieces or Misfits | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

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