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...demonstrated how the murderer most likely stood over the victim, repeatedly hitting her with the club. "She was probably on the ground receiving some injury," he said. As the killer swung the club back, it had finally broken apart and the bloodied metal head and two sections of the shaft flew more than100 feet, coming to rest among dead leaves across the yard. The killer then dragged the girl 80 feet to a tree, stopping at one point along the way to roll the body over and change from pulling the upper body to pulling it by the feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skakel Trial: Gruesome Details from Day Two | 5/9/2002 | See Source »

Undercover Brother (May 31): Starring Eddie Griffin, Dave Chapelle, Denise Richards and Chris Kattan in a very obvious takeoff of Shaft, this spoof features a number of departed Saturday Night Live alums that is unimpressive at best...

Author: By Vijay A. Bal, Matthew Callahan, Clint J. Froehlich, Tiffany I. Hsieh, Steven N. Jacobs, Michelle Kung, Amelia E. Lester, and Benjamin J. Soskin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Sink or Swim? | 5/3/2002 | See Source »

Decorating philosophy: I think my room shows my informality, or letting go, if you will. I like to put figures I like to emulate on my wall, like Jimi Hendrix and Cary Grant. Oh, and Sean Connery and Shaft, you’ve gotta have them...

Author: By Arielle J. Cohen and Cornelia L. Griggs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Dormroom Dialogue with a Vengeance | 4/11/2002 | See Source »

...public, has its own tragic history. It was closely associated with the charities founded by Grand Duchess Elizabeth, Nicholas II's half-English sister-in-law. The day after the Czar and his family were murdered, Elizabeth and other members of the royal family were thrown down a mine shaft in Siberia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walk on the Wild Side | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...hear it before you see it. A group of fire fighters are milling quietly on a sunlit New York City street. Then you hear the roar. It's a jet, too loud, too low. The camera jerks up to catch a shaft of blue sky pierced by American Airlines Flight 11 as it plunges, javelin-like, into the north tower of the World Trade Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Within Crumbling Walls | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

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