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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These assaults tend to be far more violent than those spurred by robbery--consider the horrible sight of Matthew Shepard beaten repeatedly and left to die on a fence because he was gay, or of James Byrd Jr. dragged to his death behind a truck in Texas last summer because he was black. These are among the most heinous of crimes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Legislation Not Superfluous | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...stop, my head turns, and I stare with fascination because this world has so few heroes left. Every time a truck passes, I know heroes have just gone by. DAVID V. JOFFE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Risking It All, Firefighters Are Rare Modern Heroes | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

Those without mad skillz using stir-fry woks probably ought to hail the "Chinese Kitchen Food Truck." It's stationed just north of the Science Center, 35 Oxford St. Large box meals go for only $3 to 3.50. Tempt fate with by capping off your meal with two fortune cookies (25c for the pair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF SHOPPING IN CAMBRIDGE | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...never indifferent to a passing fire truck. My head would follow the Doppler effect, twisting around to see the pulsating lights disappear off to perform acrobatic feats of heroism about which I could only imagine...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, | Title: Editorial Notebook | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...play has no explicit sex (and very little implicit) and no cheap lampooning of the Greatest Story Ever Told. Indeed, Corpus Christi is a serious, even reverent retelling of the Christ story in a modern idiom--quite close, in its way, to the original. Jesus heals a truck driver of leprosy, raises Lazarus from the dead and predicts his own betrayal at the Last Supper. ("He's drunk, guys," says an Apostle. "It's the wine talking.") If the point is to make Jesus' teachings live for a contemporary audience, activist Christians should be hailing this play, not trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jesus Christ Superstar? | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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