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This winter, a skater was attacked and clubbed in the knee by a rival's body guard. Within a month, Nancy Kerrigan appeared on the cover of almost every news magazine and Tonya Harding became the most hated woman in the world of winter sports...

Author: By Tehshik P. Yoon, | Title: Beavis Is No Bill Safire | 3/18/1994 | See Source »

...scientists could tell that the animal stood 3 ft. 6 in. tall. That seemed too short for a hominid, but the animal had an all important human characteristic: unlike any species of primate known to have come before, this creature walked fully upright. How did the researchers know? The knee joint was built in such a way that the animal could fully straighten its legs. That would have freed it from the inefficient, bowlegged stride that keeps today's chimps and gorillas from extended periods of two-legged walking. Presuming that this diminutive hominid was a female, Johanson named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Man Began | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Complete randomization would rob houses of any sort of individuality or character. Knee-jerk fans of diversity seem to forget that Adam's artsiness and Kirkland's Incest Fest bring individuality and richness into their inhabitants' lives. The alternative to house "character" is a system of 12 sterile dormitories, nothing more than place to live, rather than the vibrant communities they are intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring Back Ordered Choice for Housing | 3/11/1994 | See Source »

However, more and more, the Left seems to be withdrawing from the ring. The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association reacted to the homosexuality issue as if they had received a knee in the groin . They still don't seem to have recovered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peninsula Is Still Controversial | 3/10/1994 | See Source »

This is sadism with scruples. But in all his movies Seagal snacks on villains as if they were sunflower seeds. In Marked for Death he broke the lead villain's body -- snap! -- over his knee. In Under Siege, by far the snazziest of Seagal's films, he got to smash Tommy Lee Jones' head through a computer screen. Faced with a bunch of thugs in Hard to Kill, he used his fatal grace to dispatch all but the gang leader, then tossed his weapon aside to give the gun-toting goon a sporting chance. Talk about your Zen machismo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Half-Baked Alaska | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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