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...states, and they are responsible for at least 22 killings over the past three years. "The skinheads are today the most violent of all white-supremacy groups," the B'nai B'rith report concluded. "Not even the Ku Klux Klan, so notorious for their use of the rope and the gun, comes close." An FBI source has told TIME that one of the juvenile members of the Fourth Reich Skinheads arrested last week is being charged with a pipe-bomb attack against a member of the "Spur Posse," the gang of teenage boys in Lakewood, California, that won notoriety earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today Los Angeles, Tomorrow . . . | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...Watson. Her paintings (of a victimized self, plus horses, with braids of hair pinned to the canvas) are comically ill done. This is the bottom of the barrel; it also links up with the other main section of the Biennale, known as "Aperto 93" and installed in the old rope factory at the Arsenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Shambles In Venice | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

...private death, leaving too few scraps to make a puzzle. Cearley's fall seems easier to understand. He and two companions had made the arduous climb to the 20,320-ft. summit and back down to 18,500 ft. As they stopped to rest and rope up, Cearley, who was not using his ice ax, lost his balance and slid away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Mountaineering: No Room at the Top | 6/14/1993 | See Source »

...Rope, A Tree...: The small but vocal contingent of Crimson fans who traveled here to watch Harvard play Virginia in their semifinal contest were not the only ones who questioned some of the calls the officials mad throughout the game...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: National Championship to Virginia, 8-6, Over Princeton | 5/17/1993 | See Source »

...resorts -- prompted in part by long lift lines and the high cost of lift tickets as well as the thirst for adventure. "What they don't realize," says Dale Atkins, who forecasts avalanches for the state of Colorado, "is that once they cross under that quarter-inch rope, they've gone from a safe, managed area to the wild unknown of Mother Nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eluding The White Death | 3/8/1993 | See Source »

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