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...multi-city crime spree lasting barely an hour, four teenagers hold up two Harvard students and two Cantabrigians at gunpoint, including an undergraduate walking beside Lowell House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Day By Day: 1999-2000 In Review | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...Stuckey's spree began in early October, when students in several Matthews Hall rooms awoke to find wallets and cash missing from their common rooms. The burglar's technique couldn't have been simpler--he entered rooms as students slept, ignoring more valuable booty like computers, cell phones and cameras...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Names in the News | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...hijinks couldn't last. On Oct. 22, three weeks into his crime spree, officers of the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) arrested Andre K. Stuckey for hundreds of dollars worth of burglaries...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Names in the News | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...wrong in a peacekeeping operation." It began when the merciless rebel leader Foday Sankoh adopted a singularly ruthless strategy: if you terrorize enough civilians--raping girls, mutilating children, burning houses--the world will eventually give you just about anything to stop the atrocities. By July 1999 the beastly killing spree had spurred Washington and London into brokering a flawed peace-at-any-price, handing Sankoh and his Revolutionary United Front amnesty, four seats in the government and control over the country's rich diamond mines. In return, the rebels were supposed to disarm and behave. Instead, the amnesty emboldened them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When The Peace Cannot Be Kept | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

...Klebold's movements, from their guns-blazing entrance through the school's west entrance (11:19) to the moment the two teenage killers turned their weapons on themselves in the blood-soaked library (12:08). But the report doesn't answer the questions victims' families have about the killing spree, namely: What took SWAT teams more than 45 minutes - almost the entire length of the rampage - to get inside the school, and another three-plus hours to get to the library? Why were some of the injured not reached until hours after the shooting stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columbine Report: More Details Than Answers | 5/16/2000 | See Source »

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