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Moral ambiguities abounded. In Janesville, Wis., Riley watched as anti-Klan demonstrators violently battled police while Klan members stood peacefully on a hill. "The protesters hit me in the stomach with a can of Coke hurled from 100 ft. away," recalls Mike. "Klan leader Thom Robb is a friendly soul who welcomed us into his home for a spaghetti dinner. He loves his family, but he's looked at the world from upside down for so long that hate has become love and evil has become good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Jul. 6, 1992 | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...repulsed by chilly blasts from a fire hose. Eventually the frustrated crowd began to pelt the cops with mud, rocks, bottles and obscenities. The police made eight arrests. For the man whose presence triggered the violence, no outcome could have been better. "Oh, yeah," said Grand Wizard Thom Robb of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "I couldn't have bought this advertising for a million bucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White & Wrong | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...Hurt by an erratic offense and shoddy tackling on defense, the Harvard football team falls to Yale, 23-13. Two blocked punts, four delay-of-game penalties and an anemic 19 yards passing overshadow shining individual performances from sophomore quarterback Mike Giardi and junior runing back Robb Hirsch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Year IN REVIEW | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

Lots of luck. In Dubuque as elsewhere, racial debates frequently descend into ugly arguments over affirmative action, quotas, welfare -- and worse. Smelling fertile soil, Ku Klux Klan national director Thom Robb of Arkansas and a few of his cronies made an appearance three weeks ago, attracting about 150 residents to a rally. "You hear people saying that the Klan sounds kind of reasonable, and that's scary," says Francis Giunta, head of the Dubuque Federation of Labor. Plan supporters held counterdemonstrations. Even the Guardian Angels showed up for a few days. At Dubuque Senior High School, police had to patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race Relations: A White Person's Town? | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

Harvard Film Archive--The Tourist directed by Robb Moss, USA, at 5 p.m. Pictures From a Revolution directed by Susan Meiselas, Richard Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti, USA, at 6:10 p.m. The Entertainer directed by Tony Richardson, Great Britain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At Harvard | 12/12/1991 | See Source »

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