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...that the prosecution's case is a slam dunk: there is no physical evidence tying Markhasev to the murder last January on a freeway off-ramp near Brentwood, Calif., and the only eyewitness failed to identify Markhasev in a police lineup. Most of the case will rest on the easily impeachable testimony of various drug-taking and drug-dealing associates of the defendant's, and a friend who fingered him for a $100,000 bounty offered by the National Enquirer (the friend led cops to a wooded area where Markhasev supposedly hid the gun; police indeed found a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...against Army, Scott gave the few fans that showed up-along with Hall of Fame Boston Globe journalist, Bob Ryan-one of the most spirited efforts in recent memory. He had 22 points, a career high 11 rebounds, 4 steals, the game's only dunk, a clutch gliding layup that started a 10-4 run after the Cadets got within 6 points, and the play...

Author: By Lev F. Gerlovin, | Title: For Crimson, Scott Leads By Example | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...Scott who put the exclamation point on the rally by gathering up Army forward Seth Barrett's lost dribble at the foul line and breaking away down-court for the one-handed dunk...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Cagers Crush Cadets | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

...years I have been into computers. I remember my family's firstmachine: an Apple IIe. My favorite digital pastime was playing "Dr. J. vs. Larry Bird" and breaking the backboard with a slam dunk so the little cleanup man would come out with his squeaky cart to clean it up like onWoody Woodpecker. But I digress...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: Becoming a Whiz With Computers | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

...director, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, hurries us past all the desperate explanations required by sequels to movies that ended up pretty definitively (the last we saw of Ripley in Alien 3, she was taking a dunk in molten metal). Since most of these are incomprehensible anyway, especially as they are constantly interrupted by fires, floods and explosions, Jeunet is eager to get on with the really scary stuff. This is not, given the movie's self-satirizing impulse, as terrifying as it once was. But on the whole, the eek-for-yuks trade-off is more than fair--hip without being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SHORT TAKES: ALIEN RESURRECTION | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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