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...school students to talk about education. "The very first question was about what to do when someone starts shooting! We spent the whole time talking about how to hit the floor and hide under a desk. Have we gone mad?" Teachers are also afraid: two weeks ago, at the suburban Wauwatosa West High School, a former student named Leonard McDowell, 21, allegedly shot associate principal Dale Breitlow, 46, three times in a second-floor hallway with a .44-cal. Taurus revolver, killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Have We Gone Mad? | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

Parents in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, were refusing to let their children out of their sight after a second missing girl was found dead in the area. Similarities in the cases suggest a serial killer. Police are pursuing more than 400 leads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week December 5-11 | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...presidential promise. In August, just minutes before the win-or-die budget vote in the House, Clinton cut a deal to gain the crucial support of freshman Pennsylvania Democrat Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky. The price seemed paltry: the President agreed to appear this week at an entitlements summit in her suburban Philadelphia district to discuss the role of government benefit programs in fueling the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Their Turn to Pay? | 12/20/1993 | See Source »

...still hard to keep track of that seasonal entity which was so important back in the comparatively stress-free suburban life I led before...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: My Mother Sent Me A Christmas Tree | 12/15/1993 | See Source »

...destiny is far kinder in director Christopher Guest's post-feminist ; interpretation of this troubled suburban Mrs. The result is a movie that really means to be funny. The new Attack spoofs '90s notions of male insecurity and female empowerment. The plot follows the old line: Nancy (Daryl Hannah) is married to a bonehead (Daniel Baldwin), who prefers cavorting in motels with beauticians named Honey to sipping Chardonnay at home with his wife. For years he has chipped away at Nancy's self-esteem. She's 5 ft. 10 in., but inside she feels about the size of a Barbie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty-Foot Feminist | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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