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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pathological relationship with her weapon makes me hope there are no little children who call her Mommy." "Pistol-packing pedagogues can teach the four Rs: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic and 'rmed response." "Instead of sending a disruptive student to the principal, the teacher could just shoot him in the kneecap." "Hey, Lisa! Get rid of the gun, get help and get a life!" CHOICE EPITHETS FOR TIME'S STAFF FROM THE TICKED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrick Smith's Mailbag | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Suddenly, though, weird things started happening. A line drive on the final out of the seventh by New York's Marius Russo shattered the kneecap of Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, who had shut out the Yankees in Game Three. New York scored the deciding run via four straight singles off luckless reliever Hugh Casey in the eighth...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RTD2: Red Sox Bleed Dodger Blue | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

Climbing Mount Everest is no mean feat. Climbing Mount Everest with only one foot borders on lunacy. TOM WHITTAKER, a mountaineer who lost a kneecap and a foot in a car accident in 1979, is in the Himalayas right now on his way to the top. No, he's not hopping or being dragged up, although he is being carried financially by a vitamin company. He has a prosthesis, which has its advantages (no chance of frostbite) but takes 30% more energy to walk with. This is Whittaker's third assay on Everest. He was turned back once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 20, 1998 | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

Boom. Kelly's kneecap popped out of place one minute into her collegiate debut, and her freshman year was finished...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Black Undaunted by Injury-Plagued Career | 2/12/1997 | See Source »

...Eckardt. Inside, Gillooly, Eckardt and two out-of-town thugs for hire discuss ways to keep Nancy Kerrigan from competing Jan. 7 and 8 in the U.S. figure-skating championships in Detroit. Methodically the four men run down their options: cut Kerrigan's Achilles tendon, break her leg or kneecap, kill her. According to Gillooly, he then calls Harding and asks her to pick him up. As Gillooly drives, he details a proposed $2,000 deal that carries a money-back guarantee. If Gillooly is to be believed, their dialogue goes something like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Slippery Saga of Tonya Harding | 2/14/1994 | See Source »

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