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Strangely, the sedate land of Canada is a hotbed of one of the most aggressive and violent "sports" out there. As Pete Winson, a Boston University student and friend of this reporter, so astutely notes, "[All] the best pro wrestlers come from Canada." This list includes Bret and Owen Hart, Chris Jericho, Jacques Rougeau, Phil LaFon and Chris Benoit...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Even if Canada, U.S. Share Undefended Border, There's Always a Cold War | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

...high time Western powers took more concrete actions to combat the mad dogs who slaughter innocent people. Governments must realize before it is too late that there is another Iran or Iraq lurking around the corner, and that could spell catastrophe for our fragile world. Samuel O. Adenekan Winson Green, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters , Feb. 6, 1995 | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

Such prudence may be well advised. Freud was not the first to postulate the unconscious; the concept has a long intellectual ancestry. Nor did Freud ever prove, in empirical terms that scientists would accept, the existence of the unconscious. But Jonathan Winson, professor emeritus of neurosciences at Rockefeller University in New York City, who has done extensive research on the physiology of sleep and dreams, now claims Freud's intuition of its existence was correct, even if his conclusions were off the mark: "He's right that there is a coherent psychological structure beneath the level of the conscious. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assault on Freud | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...only a young kid and a bit of a romantic." Inspector Wicken was taken with the idea, on the theory that this might widen the net: "He told me to play along with it." In January Lennon and O'Brien drove to Birmingham to reconnoiter the Winson Green prison, where one of the prisoners was held. "I told Pat to get out and take a photo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Informer | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Appalled, the British government kept the search going anyhow, and at the same time opened an investigation into the baffling question of how security at Winson Green had so easily been breached. An initial conclusion: officials were so intent on preventing prisoners from getting out that they had never even considered the problem of someone breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Great Jail Break | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

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