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Capable of planning anything, perhaps. But the police accounts include details that challenge the group's technical proficiencies, portraying it as a cult that couldn't shoot straight. The remote-controlled helicopters, purchased from a dealer in northern Japan for $20,000 each in 1993, crashed during the first two practice sessions. The germ-warfare team, despite experiments with botulism, never produced a working weapon. During one of its experiments, a chemical vaporized into a foul-smelling gas, escaped into the outside air and precipitated, coating nearby cars with brown ooze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOKO ASAHARA: ENGINEER OF DOOM | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

During football season sophomore fall, I started to write honkers like: "The fourth quarter [against Columbia] degenerated into a `qui es mui macho' contest over which team could shoot itself in the foot with the bigger gun." Or: "The first three Cornell scores were virtual gifts from St. Restic and his 45 reindeer." Suffice it to say these statements didn't play well in Mather, Currier and Kirkland (Where Intelligence Is Just Another Big Word) Houses...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Final Look | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

Which he uses "for fun, to shoot cans andstuff...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Shooting To the Right | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...remember being in the Lampoon during one of those nights when people were trashing windows, and I was sticking my head out the window of the `castle,'" Wilson says. "A Cambridge cop going by yelled, 'Stick your god damn head back in the window or I'll shoot...

Author: By Michael M. Luo, | Title: Wilson Proves Adaptable as Activist, Academic | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

...kidding. But Streep was not when, later in the day, she declared this shoot to be "one of my favorite things I've ever done in my life," thus confounding widespread skepticism over how the cowboy and the lady-representing to the ever gossiping, always clueless outside world what seemed to be utterly antithetical styles and methods of work-would get along. Their contentment with each other and their project was by this time near to purring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COWBOY AND THE LADY | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

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