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After arguing loudly with the victim and hiscompanion, Donovan allegedly punched Raustein inthe face with enough force to knock him to theground. The teenagers then stole $30 from Rausteinand $3 from Fredheim...

Author: By Melissa Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Knockout Theory Disputed | 9/30/1992 | See Source »

...smart, moneyed, decent. And they made quite a daughter, one at ease with her favors, slow to complain about being too lovely or too little loved. If aloof Edgar at times seemed closer to Charlie than to Candy, that constituted benign neglect, not child abuse. Candice's lucid autobiography, Knock Wood (1984), was no Daddy Dearest. It was a sharing of Kismet's gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Having It All | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...only other candidate to knock the Lions out of the basement is Brown, where Coach Mickey Kwiatkowski's innovative Spread-T Flex offense will be crippled because nobody will know how it works...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It's No Secret: Tigers Are the Ones to Beat | 9/18/1992 | See Source »

...only other candidate to knock the Lions out of the basement is Brown, where Coach Mickey Kwiatkowski's innovative Spread-T Flex offense will be crippled because nobody will know how it works...

Author: By John B. Trainer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: It's No Secret: Tigers Are the Ones to Beat | 9/16/1992 | See Source »

...forces attack the Serbs, the Americans will try to minimize casualties by using top-secret electronic and chemical weapons tested during the Gulf War. Cruise missiles generating devastating electromagnetic fields will knock out power plants and transmission towers as they fly over them, while destroying all data stored in tapes and disks at the targets. Other missiles will release showers of carbon-fiber dust to short out electrical installations. A CIA chemical, sprayed on roads or airfields, will rot tires. And if operatives can get close enough, a new microbe, dropped into fuel tanks of jets, tanks and trucks, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was This Stuff on CNN? | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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