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...brown with the dried blood of a neighbor mortally wounded by a sniper in broad daylight two days earlier. Shrapnel burst through the bedroom window of Puzic's 12-year-old son Damir and ripped the carpet. On the ground floor, Sandra Makcic's bedroom was gutted by a shell a month ago, minutes after she left it. Said Ramisa Trtak, 70, who moved into the building after her house in an outlying quarter was obliterated: "During the World War they aimed at strategic targets. In this idiotic war they aim at civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns Now, Butter Later | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

Ross Perot is fond of condemning Washington as "a town filled with sound bites, shell games, handlers and media stunt men." His disdain for politics- as-usual propels his anti-campaign. Yet Perot has turned over management of his crusade to a bipartisan corps of political pros who exemplify everything Perot says he opposes. Their efforts to transform Perot's volunteer army into a more traditional campaign brigade have sown widespread resentment and anger among his early enlistees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dallas On The Line | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...experts doubt that a full-scale airlift could bring in enough food to do more than help Sarajevo's 400,000 residents survive. A genuine end to the - siege might require opening an overland corridor from Split. That would be a still more difficult task if relief convoys negotiating shell-pocked roads also had to shoot their way past Serbian roadblocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Bosnia -- At What Price? | 7/13/1992 | See Source »

...streets of Cambridge are not the only places to find cheap music during the summer. Free outdoor concerts abound at such venues as the Hatch Shell in Boston and Charles Square in Cambridge...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: Summer in the City | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...kids can afford to shell out $30 to $50 for a pair of Tevas, and more than $80 for Birkenstocks...

Author: By June Shih, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Right (Summer) Stuff | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

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