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Ritchie, like the woman he calls "the missus," doesn't always play by the rules. At 15 he left school, then eschewed his upper-middle class for a life of globe trotting and barhopping. Along the way he acquired the long knife scar on his left cheek. Last summer he got into a scrape with a male fan because "our house got sieged," he says. "One day I couldn't even drive my car out of the house, so I got out and kicked someone. We haven't had a fan since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Madonna's Guy | 1/22/2001 | See Source »

...Emmanuel, noticed that I was skating with my right knee stiff and suggested that I bend it a couple of inches, just as I was already bending my left one. It sounds subtle, but it was as if I'd been chopping garlic with the blunt side of a knife my whole life and a dinner guest walked into the kitchen and pointed out the blade. Now, instead of the glorified walking I'd been doing, I could move to the blaring music with a smidgen of grace. Trust me, you haven't really heard the Backstreet Boys until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Continuing Education: Learning to Skate--but Not Like Her | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Daye disagrees. "There were 6,000 guys at Folsom prison," he says, "and I was the only one from Iowa." He learned to make a knife out of a sardine can and sew a steel tray into his coat as body armor. "They put my life in far more peril than I was ever in on the street." Daye, who makes $7 an hour as a cook in Raleigh, N.C., still hopes that his lawsuit, now under appeal, will help set things right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After the Exoneration | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...practice climb in what appears to be Monument Valley. An accident occurs, and the three of them are dangling from a rope that can only hold two. Someone has to be cut loose. This turns out to be the father, and it is his son who wields the knife that sends him into deadly free fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Free Fall | 12/11/2000 | See Source »

...through the banners and ripped the strings," Kerivan said. "He later returned with a Swiss army knife and tried to cut down the signs...

Author: By Warren Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tufts President Backs Protesters | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

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