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...chivalry is dead, we realize," the editorial read. "Instead of coming to the defense of Harvard's women students, The Harvard Crimson...not only turned its back but slung a good right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon Contest Sought Beauty Among College Women | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

Lawrence launches into a first-rate description of his anticrime efforts, but the ceo of this organization--a slim, well-tended man who wears his reading glasses slung low on an impressive nose--barely looks up from his papers. Police Commissioner William Bratton designed these Comstat (short for computer statistics) meetings as a way to make his 76 far-flung precinct commanders--and 38,000 cops--accountable for the crime rate. Nobody had ever done it before, and it's working: total felonies in New York City are down 27% in just two years, to levels not seen since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE GOOD APPLE | 1/15/1996 | See Source »

Walking down the corridors, Becky and her male partner looked like the typical tourist couple on vacation, dressed in Bermuda shorts and T shirts, cameras slung over their necks. But hidden in Becky's suitcase was a sophisticated sodium iodide crystal detector to sniff minute amounts of gamma radiation from as far away as another room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NUCLEAR NINJAS | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

Today, Bragg is a round-faced young man with aconstant flow of talk and the low-slung pants of ahip-hop fan. Friends call him Big Papa, both for arap artist he likes and because "he's got thislittle chubby going on," one says...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: The Anointed One | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...mission was -- if any -- no one knew. It seemed strange that he had orders to go west when the Wehrmacht needed every man in the east. The sergeant shed no light on the question. He drove the truck with singular determination, fatigue cap pushed into his neck, submachine gun slung across his chest, eyes on the road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

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