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...steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within a year of landing in the New World -- fresh hazards awaited them in America. Among them were streetwise recent immigrants who would rob them of their few remaining shillings or kronen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Migration | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...tenderfoot's young son. Here, Haynes is the bad guy, but he's mainly Shane. When Terry puts the make on Phillip, Butch avenges the assault. He gives Phillip lessons in backwoods manhood: how to smoke, cuss, dance, romance a waitress, drive a car, steal a car, rob a store and, of course, point a loaded gun at people you don't like. It's the blind leading the blind: Butch is trying to become the father neither he nor the boy ever knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haynes! Come Back, Haynes! | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...Rob Messella...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE (2-7 overall, 1-5 Ivy League) | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

Senior guards Josh Jennings and Damon Franklinwill hold down the backcourt amid the departure ofstars Rob Connolly and Dave Brown. As for thefrontcourt, Sean Fitzgerald, Andy Karazim andBernie Colson will be joined by a host of talentedfreshmen...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: A Done Deal: Penn | 11/13/1993 | See Source »

Schreiber launches his latest polemic by saying that Prof. Harvey C. Mansfield's moral condemnation of homosexuality lacks any logical foundation and doesn't even deserve a rational response. Schreiber then ends by comparing Mansfield and Peninsula editor Rob Wasinger to "immature children" who are only encouraged by the attention people waste on them. Then what exactly is Schreiber up to in the intervening 17 paragraphs of verbiage? I'd love to know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columnist Self-Righteous and Unconstructive | 11/5/1993 | See Source »

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