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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Knighton drew a .22-cal. revolver out of his belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Children Without Pity | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

...weeks, as George Bush's standing in the polls dropped and fears grew that the economy might stagger back into recession, he had been under pressure from both friend and foe to do something to get his presidency back on track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Clearing the Decks | 12/16/1991 | See Source »

After three months of hellish pounding, the dazed citizens of Vukovar stagger out of their cellars into a city turned to rubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine contents page | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

...shouldn't take much time in the bowels of the subway system to realize that for every disease-ridden, drugcrazed bum who manages to stagger through a turnstile without depositing a token, there are three 30-year-old downtown businesspeople who enjoy showing off the hurdling skills they developed while on the track team at some elite college like, say, Harvard. I found further proof of the lack of correlation between socioeconomic condition and depravity in what I saw at the Lowell House Formal last Saturday night at the Harvard Club of Boston...

Author: By David N. Greenwald, | Title: What Harvard Needs | 5/16/1990 | See Source »

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