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...killing Nicole Brown Simpson in the manner the prosecution has proposed, according to his doctor, Robert Huizenga. Though Huizenga had described the ex-football star as a physical wreck, he nonetheless conceded that Simpson could have pulled back Nicole Brown Simpson's head with his left hand and slit her throat with his right. As the defense began its second week, testimony also focused on Simpson's cut finger, which the defense maintains was injured when the defendant broke a drinking glass in his Chicago hotel room upon learning of his ex-wife's death. A principal challenge still looms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOCTOR SAYS O.J. WAS FIT TO KILL | 7/17/1995 | See Source »

Stoughton and Hollis, the almost-identicalNorth Yard dorms, offer one huge room for twopeople. Hollis and Stoughton roommates eitherbecome bosom buddies fast or spend the year achingto slit each other's throats. In any case, theyget to know each other well...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John F. Kennedy Slept Here; Soon You Will Too | 6/27/1995 | See Source »

...slaughter was swift and sure. After prisoners at Serkadji, Algiers' Alcatraz, used sharpened metal bed slats to slit the throats of four guards and attempted a mass escape, government security forces--the Ninjas, as they are called--swept into the prison. When they were done with their work, at least 96 inmates, most of them Muslim militants, lay dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: THE PRISON OF BLOOD | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...intelligence officer in Bangkok that he had found a ``very beautiful bird with many beautiful feathers,'' code words signaling he had the index. Schweitzer made two copies of the original tape. He wound one into a tight spool the size of a coin and inserted it into a slit cut into his sneakers; he transferred the other onto an audio cassette and slipped it into his Walkman. Inspectors at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport did not discover either tape before Schweitzer boarded a flight to Bangkok. The operation, code named ``Swamp Ranger,'' was a success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECRETS OF THE MUSEUM | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

...next day Beavis put a knife to the throat of the boy who raped Rainbow. "I couldn't do it," he says. "I couldn't slit his throat." So the boy pulled out a can of Mace and sprayed Beavis in the face. He blindly stumbled out into the night, hands tearing at his face, eyes and lungs burning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Running Scared | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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