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Dahmer's murderous rampage might have continued indefinitely had one of his victims not escaped last week. Running down a Milwaukee street with a pair of handcuffs dangling from one wrist, Tracy Edwards, 32, told police that Dahmer was trying to kill him. Dahmer was arrested without a struggle. He has since expressed remorse and briefed the authorities on his modus operandi: he usually lured men from shopping malls and bars by offering them money to pose for pictures; after drugging them, he would strangle his victims and dismember the bodies. Often he boiled their heads to remove the flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Flat of Horrors | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...operates persuasively on the gut level where most moviegoers live. It establishes Schwarzenegger as a stolid icon with a sense of humor, swatting down some bikers like a bad-to-the-bone good ole boy, reloading one of the movie's zillion firearms with a fancy twirl of the wrist -- proving he has become, in Schwarzenegger's words, "a kinder, gentler terminator" by forswearing murder: he merely shoots off a record number of kneecaps. And T-1000 seems an ideal villain. It can replicate any person it touches and annihilate its victim with a slash of its rapier limbs: Cyborg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Half A Terrific Terminator | 7/8/1991 | See Source »

...break did not heal properly, and he would play his senior year--for which he was the Engineers' captain--with a cast on his wrist. Although he lasted through that year, tallying two assists in his only contest against Harvard, a 6-2 win in Cambridge, Tomassoni decided not to play in Italy following his college career...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Tomassoni and Harvard: Married From the Start | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...over to the government. The couple also preferred to travel on TWA, even when ; other carriers offered more direct routes. Because Cavazos' son worked for the airline, the Secretary's wife was able to fly free. Sununu's heavy use of military flights earned him a slap on the wrist, but Cavazos' machinations are the subject of a Justice Department criminal investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cancel Our Reservations | 5/27/1991 | See Source »

Brown women's tennis Coach Norma Taylor doesn't happen to be one of those coaches. She asked number-two Serena Wu to play an Ivy title-determining match against Harvard with a broken wrist last year. She asked Anna Sloan--a top-30 player last year--to play her first match of the season against the Crimson yesterday in spite of the fact that Sloan said she would not play tennis this term...

Author: By Daniel L. Jacobowitz, | Title: Netwomen Beat Brown, Or Did They? | 4/27/1991 | See Source »

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