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...student reportedly did not have any money. The assailant struck him on the head, then fled in an unknown direction, police reported...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, | Title: Undergrad Attacked Outside Adams House | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

...owners of laptop computers. You must turn on the computer and, all too often, attempt to explain the concept of a C prompt to someone who seems to think it's a nice name for a speedboat. Last time I was well into the theory of dos before it struck me that the real question is why anyone should be reassured by seeing a computer screen light up at the flick of a switch. Surely the same geniuses who manufacture laptop-shaped bombs can design one that's programmed to flash GOOD MORNING, BARBARA. THIS IS YOUR TOSHIBA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRPORT INSECURITY | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

Anne Michaels takes some audacious risks in Fugitive Pieces (Knopf; 294 pages; $23), not the least of them being a brief introductory passage that reveals her novel's conclusion. "Poet Jakob Beer, who was also a translator of posthumous writing from the war, was struck and killed by a car in Athens in the spring of 1993, at age sixty. His wife had been standing with him on the sidewalk; she survived her husband by two days. They had no children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: A HOST OF DEBUTS | 3/3/1997 | See Source »

CONVICTED. LEMRICK NELSON JR., 21, and CHARLES PRICE, 43, of civil rights violations in the 1991 death of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic Jew who was attacked by a band of black men after a car accident in which a Hasidic motorist struck and killed a black child; in New York City. Nelson was acquitted of murder in a 1992 state trial, but Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a federal investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 24, 1997 | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...nasty reminder come election day: the words "Disregarded Voter Instruction on Term Limits" would be placed on the ballot next to their names. Opponents have called the measure a "Scarlet letter" in ridicule, while supporters have defended their efforts as representative of the public will. The Arkansas court struck down Amendment 9 as unconstitutional, saying it violated the Constitution's requirement that all amendments originate either in Congress or a state legislature. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled two years ago that neither Congress nor the separate states could unilaterally impose term limits, meaning that it would take a Constitutional amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justices Erase Scarlet Letter | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

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