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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last January, Currier House student and bell desk attendent Johnathan O. Williams '88 was targeted by a "Negro hit squad." Now we learn that one racist punk, Gregory H. Williams '88, has been exonerated by the Harvard administration, first by receiving a slap on the wrist probation, then by being allowed to play football. For the well-heeled bigots who run this bastion of race and class privilege, Black students are obviously less important than Crimson pigskin and this is nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racism on Campus | 11/4/1987 | See Source »

...Three New York City pedestrians were killed by cyclists in 1986, while nine bikers were killed by motorists. "They are like roaches," complains Anita Sockol, who was crossing Lexington Avenue in June when she was floored by a speeding cyclist. She suffered a broken hip and wrist, and now limps. "They come at you from all sides," she adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scaring The Public to Death | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...than one-third of the nation's 175,000 packinghouse workers -- 160 victims each day -- will suffer a serious injury or illness this year. Because meat-packing employees must work swiftly with sharp knives and cleavers, severe cuts and fractures are common. So is carpal- tunnel syndrome, a painful wrist condition caused by a repetitive chopping motion that swells tendons, pinches nerves and sometimes requires corrective surgery. Many workers in IBP's Dakota City, Neb., plant "stand on treacherously slippery floors covered with animal fat," contends Lewie Anderson, vice president of the 1.3 million-member United Food and Commercial Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Sweat And Fears | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

Since then, Cosby has worn a silver bracelet that he bought for himself inscribed CAMILLE'S HUSBAND. It matches the silver Rolex he wears on his left wrist and the stopwatch he always takes to the track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Do Believe in Control | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...dropped into the Atlantic and asked for a Coast Guard search. But when he made an emergency landing at Portland International Jetport, Boucher discovered happily that Dempsey was still hanging on to the door. His head had missed striking the ground by 12 inches. He suffered only a bruised wrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Track: Delta is blamed for a close call | 9/14/1987 | See Source »

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