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...caller reported to HUPD that she observed two males attempting to steal a bicycle at the Boylston Hall side of Widener Library...

Author: By Danielle M. Beyer, Maria Ceballos, Rajae Merzoug, and Stephanie D. Mock, GDFDFGS | Title: Police Log | 7/7/2000 | See Source »

...than ever: 50% of the middle schoolers say they know someone who smokes pot, and 36% feel pressure from their peers to do so. Nearly half know someone who has had sex; 40% feel pressure to do so. And 37% of the kids polled say they feel pressure to steal something from a store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paging all Parents | 7/3/2000 | See Source »

...days' work. But not anymore. Every morning now, when her husband Robert checks the cattle on their 500-acre spread near the border at Douglas, Ariz., he sees "heads poppin' up all over in the mesquite bushes," says Helen. Several times, bands of illegal immigrants tried to steal their pick-up and break into the Hoffmans' house under the tall cottonwoods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Border Clash | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...decrepit is the regime of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe that his party almost lost a parliamentary election despite an energetic campaign to steal it. The ruling ZANU-PF party, which previously held all but three seats in the country?s legislature, lost 58 of the 120 seats contested at the weekend and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change immediately vowed to challenge the result in a further 20 in which the ruling party won by less than 500 votes. European Union observers proclaimed the two-day election anything but "free and fair" in light of a systematic campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zimbabwe's Election May Be a Botched Robbery | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

...apotheosis of his obsessions. It's a love story about a man and his car. Actually, a man and other people's cars, for Randall ("Memphis") Raines (Cage) is a car thief, a legend among the felon class of Long Beach, Calif. Six years ago, Memphis gave up stealing cars so his young brother Kip (Giovanni Ribisi) would have a better role model. But Kip went into boosting cars anyway, and now he's in trouble. Your standard movie wacko (Christopher Eccleston) will kill the kid if Memphis doesn't come out of retirement and steal 50 cars in three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Honk If You Love Jerry | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

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