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Her personal spending has raised eyebrows as well. After winning the election, she moved into a $3,000-a-month penthouse apartment in Chicago, bought a new Jeep and an expensive wardrobe, then headed for Africa and England with Matthews and her son for a 27-day vacation. The threesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is a Honeymoon? | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Typically, the child who kills a parent is from 16 to 18 years old, from a white middle-class family. Most have above-average intelligence, although their schoolwork may be below average. They generally are well-adjusted in school and the community, though they tend to be isolated, without many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Kids Kill Abusive Parents | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

Diamond eventually went on to tenure at Columbia as a professor of sociology and history. But his own early run-in with the power of the anti-communist FBI in the J. Edgar Hoover era is a telling example of how an unchecked government agency can trample individual lives.

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Snooping for Reds in the Ivory Tower | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

Trevor Thomas recalls, with only a little bit of pain, his run-in with a small sports car.

Author: By David S. Kurnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLADES, SWEAT AND TEARS | 7/3/1992 | See Source »

Behind bars, Tyson had his first serious run-in with prison authorities when he threatened to "whup" a guard after they argued in the commissary. Tyson was given four days' solitary in the disciplinary unit, where he was forbidden to work at his job in the cellblock recreation area, for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyson Scrapes Bottom | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

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