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Pasquarello said the robber left the bank soon thereafter and has not yet been caught...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg and Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Man Holds Up Bank, Flees | 10/5/2001 | See Source »

Michael Douglas stars as Dr. Nathan Conrad, a devoted family man who has abandoned work in a New York mental hospital for the relative ease and comfort of a lucrative private practice. His gift for treating teenagers attracts the attention of Patrick Koster (Sean Bean), a sinister bank robber who kidnaps the psychiatrist’s daughter and holds her hostage while Conrad works with a deeply disturbed mental patient...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mums the 'Word' | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...Devi was born, once upon a time - that is, 38 years ago - of a low-caste family in Uttar Pradesh. Sold into marriage at age 11, she ran away from her brutal husband, and fell in love with a highway robber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Hillary Clinton is Like India's Bandit Queen | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...long-ago D.W.I., in political inheritance and abstinence from alcohol. In a sublimated and nonviolent way (unless you count the lamp), our nearest version to Phoolan Devi may be....Hillary Clinton. Her defining struggle was Bill Clinton (playing the roles of both her nasty husband and her robber-lover). Standing in (unsatisfactorily) for the robber gang, we have her moral smudges and various adventures ambiguously outside the law--billing records and all of that. But Hillary skipped the massacre, the rifle, the gallop across the plains, and went straight to the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Hillary Clinton is Like India's Bandit Queen | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...right now only gets worse. This is not a climate that will encourage foreign investment. All around you see symptoms of collapse. There has been a 200 percent rise in piracy in Indonesian waters. In Jakarta, it has gotten so bad with robberies that if anyone catches a robber in their house, often the neighbors are called and the man is lynched or burned to death on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Indonesia, the Knives Are Out | 5/25/2001 | See Source »

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