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...students who broke the window were not punished for racial harassment. Instead, members of the board were concerned by "the nature of the weapon and the recklessness of using a catapult capable of breaking safety glass at 100 yards," said one Ad Board member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Senior Punished for Racial Slur | 9/29/1987 | See Source »

...Pheromones sing sly duets in a seemingly innocuous setting. The sex object is cute and easily seducible, but interested only in an encounter that is brief and zipless. Whereupon the rejected partner falls to obsessive brooding and proceeds down a darkening path from harassment to stalking with a deadly weapon. Uh-huh. At best it sounds like a cult classic in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The War Between the Mates | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

More important than all the political gambits and the thunder from both ends of the spectrum will be the testimony of one man. "If you are looking for a secret weapon in the upcoming confirmation hearings," says Hatch, "it is Judge Robert Bork. The longer he testifies before the Judiciary Committee, the more persuasive and reasoned his philosophy of judicial restraint will sound." Armed with an agile mind and a caustic wit, Bork is expected to be a formidable opponent for his critics on the committee. "Any Senator who decides to just jump in and portray Bork as some racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advise and Dissent | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

...though the Libyan leader acknowledged in a speech two weeks ago that defections from his army have become a major problem, he is not about to give up his country's claims on the Aozou Strip. Indeed, learning from their mistakes, Libyan forces in recent weeks have adopted a weapon more suited than their cumbersome tanks to desert warfare: the machine-gun toting Toyota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disputes Raiders of the Armed Toyotas | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Tehran responded by unleashing its fleet of small speedboats armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers against neutral oil tankers and freighters. The speedboats, with crews of four to eight men and often no markings indicating country of origin, are Iran's chief weapon in the gulf. The boats made hit-and-run attacks against Greek, Cypriot, Italian, Spanish, South Korean and Japanese vessels. On Friday, Iran for the first time launched one of its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles from occupied Iraqi territory on the Fao peninsula. The missile plunged harmlessly into the water off a Kuwaiti beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Back to the Bullets | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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