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...could have had a goal, too for his troubles. With the Big Red net empty at game's end, he and Joe Craigen streaked forward on a two-one-none...but Craigen kept the puck and banged it home. Probably a fine for Craigen in Harvard's kangaroo court this week, but Ferrari didn't complain...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: Icemen "Laugh A Little Longer" at Big Red's Expense, 4-0 | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

...still keep readers asking "What next?" Especially Keneally, who can play it hot or cool, tragic or comic, without forgetting the basic tricks of the trade. Never show a stick of dynamite that does not go off in a later chapter. Don't discourse on a kangaroo's boxing ability if he isn't going to kick the stuffing out of someone later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep In The Outback | 5/3/1993 | See Source »

...egregious mistakes about what the creatures looked like. Owen believed, for example, that Iguanodon, a grazing beast some 30 ft. in length, was built something like a hippopotamus, with a small, sharp horn on its nose. Half a century later, scientists decided the creature was shaped more like a kangaroo and the horn was really a misplaced claw that belonged on its forefoot. Now they think it was probably four-footed after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book on Dinosaurs | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

They tell me that back in '37, a troika ((a three-man kangaroo court common during the purges of the Stalinist terror)) could decide a person's fate. And now a troika is deciding the fate of entire nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Want to Stay the Course | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...darkened movie theater showing fare expressly designed to stimulate sexual acts, are a legal no-no. For people whose livelihood depends on public image, committing such deeds where those individuals are likely to be recognized carries a heavier penalty, which, in Reubens' case, seems to be a kangaroo court, public hanging and quick burial on TV boot hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pee-Wee's Misadventure | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

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