Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...divorced bitterly when he was eight, and he became the caretaker of both his mother and his younger brother. To deal with his unhappiness, Lucky turned first to food and ballooned to 160 lbs. in the fifth and sixth grades. At 13, he substituted drugs. Eventually, he turned to theft and street violence. "I've broken all my knuckles," says the youth, now 16. "I get into blank rages where I don't even remember what happened...
Karel Liem, Dunster House master, said he suspected the theft was an "inside job." He said that police found no signs of forced entry into the grill, and that both the grill lock and the cabinet padlock were undamaged...
...place, this inexcusable abridgement of free speech exposed liberals on campus to charges of hypocrisy and intolerance of competing viewpoints--charges that are justified far too often. Any such attempt to interfere with the dissemination of Constitutionally protected speech is an affront not only to the victims of the theft, but to the values of academic freedom, free expression and liberal tolerance that all members of the Harvard community should uphold...
...this audience, the welfare chiseler is an icon of moral theft rather than a real challenge to the pocketbook. (Welfare in Louisiana is stingy; aid for dependent children takes only 2% of the state budget.) Duke's people are affronted by the thought that large bodies of blacks are getting something for nothing, or actually being rewarded for irresponsibility (or crime). Ronald Reagan got great mileage from a mythical "welfare queen." Duke has a true story he tells to even greater effect, developing it to apocalyptic dimensions. He gave me one of its shorter versions...
...Peninsula council member Chris G.Vergonis '92 said that the only way the Collegecould prevent wholesale theft of magazines in thefuture was to punish the student involved withthis month's incident...