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...arrived as neither a leather-jacketed Johnny Depp knock-off nor a mall-stud Tom Cruise clone. Instead, the Londoner brought urbane sex appeal back to the screen. Womankind swooned at Grant's portrayal of a befuddled, beguiling wit in Four Weddings and a Funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best and Worst People of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...Nanooks have been far from impressive thus far this year, coming in at 5-10-1. But the Nanooks did knock off nationally-ranked Michigan St. earlier in the season in East Lansing...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: Icemen Flying High and Far | 12/20/1994 | See Source »

...certainly vulnerable to attack. Last April a pair of publicity- hungry lawyers deluged more than 5,000 Usenet newsgroups with an unsolicited promotional mailing, triggering a flood of angry E-mail massive enough to knock them off the Net. A few years earlier a single "worm" program, designed by a Cornell student to explore the network, multiplied out of control and brought hundreds of computer systems to a halt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror on the Internet | 12/12/1994 | See Source »

Wildcat Nick Poole centered the puck from behind the Harvard goal, but it stayed untouched until Flinton could corral it. Flinton again was covered by a Harvard defenseman, but the Crimson player couldn't knock him off the puck, and Flinton back-handed a shot from the slot through Tracy's five-hole to even the game...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Ouch! M. Hockey Manhandled by Wildcats, 5-2 | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

...Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether search warrants give police authority to enter homes without announcing their intentions. At issue is whether the Fourth Amendment prevents such searches -- even though some lower courts have ruled that failure to "knock and announce" can turn a lawful search into an illegal one. Today, the Supreme Court agreed to rule on the issue using an Arkansas case in which a woman -- convicted of drug-related charges and sentenced to 31 years in prison -- claims that evidence seized from her home should not have been used at her trial because police walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCH WARRANTS | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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