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...seven runs scored and 4 RBI. Yesterday, the junior shortstop broke the Harvard single-season stolen base record with two in the second game, giving her a total of 17. She broke her own record of 15 that she set last year and is Harvard's all-time leading thief...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Softball Outduels Hartford Twice, 4-2 and 2-0 | 4/26/1995 | See Source »

More than the other films, "Decalogue 7"--"Thou shall not steal"--strikingly portrays how opposing figures can play the same roles. Majka bears a child at 16, which her mother claims as her own. Seven years later, Majka decides to steal her daughter back. The role of "thief" is a shared one. Majka may have reason for reclaiming the daughter who was stolen from her, but she is also stealing her daughter from the life that was familiar to her, and the people whom she had loved. Kieslowski turns his lens with equal acuity on each character, sparing...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Director of 'Red' Brings Epic 'Decalogue' to the MFA | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

Janiak said he had no idea why the thief overlooked the thousands of dollars of computer equipment and CDs he also had in the room and took the "worthless" sculpture, which Janiak said he just kept for kicks. It did not even look valuable, he said, painted gold and sporting a gluedback...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: Plaster Statue Stolen, Recovered | 3/21/1995 | See Source »

When making an independent move on a relative stranger, remember that pickup lines don't work. Nobody really says things like, "Was your father a thief? I'd like to know just who stole the stars and put them in your eyes...

Author: By Jeremy D. Fiebert, | Title: Le Big Mack | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...graphic depiction of Iraq's use of mutilation to punish everyone from petty thief to political opponent will be included in a U.S. State Department report on human-rights abuses to be released in February. According to U.N. and U.S. State Department sources, hundreds and perhaps thousands of Iraqis have had hands, feet or ears amputated, without anesthetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAVAGE JUSTICE | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

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