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...Hill three times. According to sworn affidavits obtained by TIME, Ken Adams, leader of theNorthern Michigan Militia, and three militia witnesses say the officer, Sgt. Matt May, pulled Hill to the side of the road twice. Police report that May stopped the car because it carried no state license plate; instead, it bore a homemade plate reading "militia." When first pulled over, Hill spoke to May, then drove on. A mile farther down the road, May pulled him over again. Police say that Hill then pulled the gun and pointed it at Sgt. May. The situation is potentially explosive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EXECUTION OR SELF-DEFENSE? | 6/29/1995 | See Source »

That evening, it's time to discover theculinary wonders of the Harvard Union. This is thedining-room-away-from-home, where is 30-minutewait for a plate of caponata spaghetti is nothingunusual, and where first years learn to dine tothe dull roar of 1,600 of their chatteringclassmates. Many believe that the Union, more thananything else, defines the first-year experience.Never again do students eat Chickwiches with agroup the size of some Midwestern towns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...night they appear, prefects lead theircharges on a wild goose chase through the Yard,looking for the Yard Plate, a fancy silverplatter. With 1,600 bodies tearing through thedark and screamingHolworthy/Lionel/Wigglesworth Rules!, it isanybody's guess who wins. Sometimes the outcomevaries. In past years, renegade Canaday F stolethe plate from finder Grays Middle and kept itovernight, receiving a warning from the Graysprefect and gleeful approval from the Canadayprefect. Stay tuned for the results this year

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Welcome to the Jungle | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

Moreland's roommate of several weeks, Sidney Gibson, quietly fries hamburger on a hot plate. A 27-year-old Native American, he traveled to Bullhead City from Oakland, California, with his brother, who "painted a beautiful picture of good work and higher pay. I should have known it was bull." Across the river is the casino boomtown of Laughlin, Nevada, and his brother, a gambler, landed in jail for a bad check, Gibson says. Now Gibson, who spent his teenage years in an Oregon correction facility, works in a Kingman plastics factory. But he dreams of heading to Northern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEARTBREAK MOTEL | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

...year ago, after a relative gambled away his rent and utility money, leaving his credit record in ruins. A cook at Denny's, he pays $380 a month for a small room that he has made into a home: a microwave, a tabletop refrigerator, a coffee maker, a hot plate, a vcr, a collection of 28 beer steins and an aquarium with tropical fish complement a ragged sofa with foam spilling out of the cushions and a filthy shag carpet. "I want to be left alone," says Doherty, whose back was injured in a tank accident in the Army. "When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEARTBREAK MOTEL | 5/29/1995 | See Source »

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