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Fifteen minutes later, you arrive in the huge-but-not-big-enough Star parking lot. It would have been shorter, and perhaps even cheaper, to take the T. Along the way, there was the guy who cut you off without using his turn signal, the woman who put on her left turn signal that made you change into the right lane but then didn't turn left, and the slimeballs who snuck past you in the half-lane on the right to do the U-turn past the T station and into...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Don't Leave Home--If You're Not in a Tank | 8/10/1993 | See Source »

...burgundy Cadillac races along the Mississippi highway, droplets of rain stipple the windshield and storm clouds signal rougher weather ahead. Dr. Tom Tucker, a circuit-riding abortion doctor, is on his car phone with a clinic. "How's it look?" he asks. There's a problem: it seems a large, angry man is raising hell in the parking lot while 40 antiabortion protesters picket the clinic. "This," says Tucker, his right hand slowly sliding down to touch the 9-mm Glock pistol wedged beside his seat, "is where I start to feel the tingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Riding the Abortion Circuit | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

Today it takes a keen sense of iconography to know the players. Like their cousins elsewhere, Portland's racist skinheads sport flight jackets, suspenders and Doc Martens with shoelaces in various colors: white for racial purity, red for the blood they are willing to shed and yellow as a signal they have shed someone else's. But another gang of skinheads is slightly different in appearance: the swastikas have diagonal lines slashed through them, and black-and-white breast-pocket patches depict a crucified skinhead with the letters SHARP written over the top. These are the Skin Heads Against Racial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skinhead Against Skinhead | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...trying to signal to the freshmen that this diversity at Harvard should support an emphasis on the individual which is free of separate ethnic developments," Epps said...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Frosh Get Required Reading | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

...military aircraft, including A-10 attack planes and helicopter gunships, to Aviano Air Base in Italy. Without being specific, a Pentagon spokesman said the deployment gives NATO the muscle to take action in Bosnia to protect U.N. forces struggling to deliver humanitarian aid "if the U.N. gives the signal." The allies, he said, are agreed on the mechanism and procedures, and the targets have been selected. "We know how to do the job," said the official. "The ball's in Boutros-Ghali's court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A City Without Hope | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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