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...wipe out General Relief," he says. "It's an easy target. Welfare is an easy target. For every abuse in welfare, there are 19 people trying to get through...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Candidates Battle For State Senate and House Seats | 5/20/1992 | See Source »

...steadfastly maintained his innocence. He has also nearly exhausted his avenues of appeal. Barring a last-minute federal court intervention or a grant of clemency by Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, Coleman, now 33, will be executed on May 20 by a high-voltage wave of electricity that will wipe out his nervous system, followed by a low-voltage shock designed to finish the job. It is a prospect that Coleman says leaves him "anxious, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roger Keith Coleman: Must This Man Die? | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...drew the line at inviting violent, hate-mongering racists. Racists like Jeffries who say that white people should be "wipe [d]...off the face of the earth." Thugs like Jeffries who threatened to kill a Crimson reporter if he published racist and anti-Semitic comments Jeffries made and who had his bodyguards steal the reporter's tapes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inaccurate and Offensive | 4/15/1992 | See Source »

...program called Michelangelo. Like all other computer viruses, it was designed to hide within a computer's instructions and spread to other systems by copying itself over and over. But while most computer viruses do benign things -- such as whistle Yankee Doodle -- Michelangelo is pernicious. It was programmed to wipe out all the data in any infected IBM-compatible personal computer on March 6, Michelangelo's birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ding! Whrrrrrrrrrrrr. Crash! | 3/16/1992 | See Source »

...President's friends heralded the appointment as proof that Bush's heart was in the right place. But then, on Feb. 20, Pat Buchanan signaled his intent to trash the NEA for "subsidizing filthy and blasphemous art," and Frohnmayer was gone the next day. "We had to wipe away at least one of Pat's points in advance," concedes a Bush aide. "Dumping John was craven, but it was just politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest | 3/9/1992 | See Source »

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