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...million bucks, but he or she will be the swing vote to pick the one who finishes third. If Colby wins - and after acing physical and mental contests alike on his way to this point, it's hard not to make him the favorite - he probably ought to knife Tina faster than Tina knifed Maralyn, and take his chances against the chef. If Tina wins, she ought to do the same to Colby. And if Keith takes it, well, if Keith takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colby, Keith or Tina? | 5/3/2001 | See Source »

...shaving once had the gravitas and danger of a masculine order now vanished. You went about it with the focus of a surgeon. If you hacked away at your face when you had a hangover, you emerged from the bathroom looking as if you'd been in a knife fight. A perversely infallible rule of adolescence held that when shaving just before a date, you would open two or three unstoppable bleeding wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Through the Looking-Glass With a Safety Razor | 4/26/2001 | See Source »

...cause of the fight is unclear, but a witness said that after the two had argued for a few minutes he saw the New York man bleeding from his forehead. The witness then approached Solet and saw a knife in his right hand...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fight Erupts at Central Square Night Club Friday | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...ones who are at the fast-food counter getting their fries supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon's knife more readily than they would ingest anything more Indian than tandoori chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Power of Yoga | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

...come to their farmhouse in Okarche, Okla., asking to use the phone. Once inside, the armed men tied up Brooks and his parents, took turns trying to rape his 12-year-old sister, Leslie, then shot all four of them. Brooks helped free Leslie, who ran for a kitchen knife, while he gnawed at the ropes confining his mom and dad. By the time she returned, their parents were dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Witnesses for the Execution: Closure or Spectacle? | 4/23/2001 | See Source »

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