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...robber, brandishing "a knife in a threatening manner," stopped the two male students in the Hilles Library courtyard, according to the police report...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Students Robbed In Radcliffe Quad | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...robber took $5 from one student and $20 from the other, Harvard police Sgt. John J. Miller said yesterday. The robber has not been apprehended, police said...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Students Robbed In Radcliffe Quad | 4/12/1993 | See Source »

...emerge from hell into the Zen state of suspended agitation that Hal Hartley calls Long Island (though Simple Men was actually filmed in Texas). In the writer-director's third feature, following The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, a handsome bank robber (Robert Burke) and his decent younger brother (William Sage) search for their father, "the radical shortstop," who played for the Dodgers in the '50s and reputedly bombed the Pentagon in the '60s. Fugitive and busted on Long Island, the brothers fall in with the Hartley stock company of cagey women and forlorn men. To their deadpan surprise, the brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adding Kick To the Chic | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...tough guys waxing poetic and stupid guys acting tough. If Clint Eastwood were to play all the roles in a Woody Allen movie, it would sound like this: a flinty reading of home truths after the home burned down. "There's no such thing as adventure," the robber says. "No such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adding Kick To the Chic | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...Environment Facility, the Ndoki park's main sponsor. The bank has been notorious for financing ecologically damaging dams, highways and other grandiose projects all over the globe. Even park proponent Michael Fay admits that asking the bank to protect a pristine area is "a little like giving a bank robber a million dollars to install your security system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Halt! Who Goes There? | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

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