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...handful of Islamic fundamentalists have been involved in a two-year vigilante war against the city's drug dealers, and have used pipe bombs to attack suspected gang members on a number of occasions. If such disparate elements are now turning their attention to attacking targets linked (however spuriously) to the U.S., it may be a sign that the strike on Bin Laden has fueled a response to his call for global jihad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jihad at Planet Hollywood | 8/25/1998 | See Source »

...with a rifle after an argument over Nintendo in their hometown in northeast Pennsylvania, the boy hid the spent cartridge. And after Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer, 11, killed a 14-year-old girl in Chicago in the late summer of 1994, he spent days eluding police before fellow gang members executed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For They Know Not What They Do? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...says. "I just walk past him 'cause he was just too bad." Says another: "R.'s been around adults all his life. If you heard him over the radio, you'd think he's a man. He has a real bad mouth." Neighbors told TIME that R. is a gang-banger with the notorious Black Disciples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No More Kid Stuff | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

Barrymore has done some maturing offscreen as well. "I'm becoming that dork I couldn't stand when I was a kid," she says, while diving into a Korean dinner of barbecued mushrooms. "One Saturday night I found myself watching The Capital Gang on CNN. I was like, 'Oh my God! What is going on, and who have I become?'" Anyone who's ever read a tabloid knows how Drew--granddaughter of acting legend John Barrymore--bounced back from prepubescent drug and alcohol problems to become a sober-but-still-free-spirited teenage wild child. She doesn't regret much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Too Good To Be Drew? | 8/3/1998 | See Source »

...Robbins was teamed with Robert Wise as codirectors. They hated each other (when the duo received the Best Director Oscar jointly that year, neither acknowledged the other in his speech), but the child was beautiful. Russ Tamblyn's a dervish, Natalie Wood's a dream, and that finger-snapping? Gang war -- or Shakespeare, for that matter -- doesn't get any prettier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Side Potato | 7/31/1998 | See Source »

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