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Multipurpose. Harold Halpern, an Atlanta tax accountant, has used home-equity loans to buy, among other things, an Isuzu Trooper, a vacation home and an adjacent lot. Currently, he is drawing on a $60,000 line of credit to finance his highly seasonal business, which gets nearly all its revenue during spring tax-preparation time but must pay bills year-round...
...police verbally threatened students. "If you don't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head," one trooper said to a female student...
Several students received cerebral concussions and others suffered fractured bones. One trooper cracked the head of a staff member of the New England Free Press...
...minutes. The last paddy wagonsleft the Yard at 5:25 a.m. In that time, 196students were arrested, and dozens injured. Anextra edition of The Crimson that morning captureda moment of the tumult inside the hall: "A shortbrown-haired girl was hurled against the room'swooden divider and a trooper shouted, 'If youdon't stay there I'll break your fuckin' head.'"By the time the police left, the sidewalk outsideUniversity Hall was spattered with blood...
Sound too idealistic? Not to Ali Erakat, an 11-year-old trooper in Operation Kestrel with a baseball cap turned backward on his head and braces on his teeth. This assertive young man happens to be the son of Sa'eb Erakat, the tough-talking Palestinian peace negotiator. Asked how he felt about meeting and working with Israeli kids, the younger Erakat replied, "I feel happy if they feel happy. None of us want the birds to be in danger. Things like this help us to make peace between kids." Even his cagey old father would have to smile...