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Police Officer James Sullivan investigated the scene of the crime in response to the first-year's call. At Sullivan's request, the first-year will go to the police station this week to look at books of mug shots in an attempt to identify the person...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: $80 Stolen From Purse In Matthews Dorm Room | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...Upon request by the prosecution, Zobel remanded Woodward's passport into the custody of the court and demanded that she remain in the state until the prosecution has had an opportunity to appeal the decision...

Author: By Jamie H. Ginott and Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Cambridge Gropes For Normalcy After Woodward Decision | 11/12/1997 | See Source »

...cause and the need for people to sign the petition. But it is all in vain. She pays no attention to his moving lips, her gaze instead locked on his Aqua Velva blue eyes. She breaks her stare only long enough to yell, "Watch the store!"--a curious request since she's the only employee on duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKING POLITICAL BABY STEPS | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...being waged against affirmative action, the most potent weapon of all may be a harmless-looking sheaf of papers stashed in the book-lined office of Carl Cohen, a philosophy professor at the University of Michigan. The documents, which Cohen obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request, contain the top-secret charts and grids the university uses in selecting its incoming class. With their frequent references to the race of applicants, and apparent use of different and lower selection criteria for minority applicants, Cohen's materials are the kind of evidence that make a conservative litigator's pulse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: THE NEXT GREAT BATTLE OVER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...wealth and whatever else they could with them, leaving the poor behind. They were not concerned, then as now, with the well-being of the poor. These exiles would just like to retake the island and return to the old days--with our help, of course. NAME WITHHELD ON REQUEST Coral Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 10, 1997 | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

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