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...Dirty Harry, for instance, people saw him as just a rogue cop. But he's a rogue cop who's just lost his wife. He's sort of a sad guy, and he's equally saddened and angered by the bureaucratic nightmare he's dwelling in while trying to apprehend a sadistic, psychopathic serial killer. If you showed him as a happy-go-lucky guy with no problems at all, you'd have no emotional excitement in the picture...
...civil rights. It was exactly the wrong place to go. Unlike Tennessee or parts of Georgia, Mississippi didn’t have a history of compromise on racial issues. Mississippians who opposed civil rights were more than willing to use violence, and state authorities were curiously unable to apprehend the criminals who harassed and even killed civil rights workers...
...Jeopardy! challenge programs in which Ken on successive days defeats the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the European Parliament, the faculty of Beijing University (the first Jeopardy! game played entirely in Chinese) and the Council on Foreign Relations, Ken's amazing run comes to a close as security agents from Microsoft apprehend Ken in a parking lot and whisk him back to company headquarters in Redmond, Wash. "He was something a couple of the guys were messing around with and kind of forgot about," a company spokesman said. "He wasn't supposed...
...could bring home a spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town of Nhulunbuy are stretched due to an official crackdown on FFVs. In 2003, 138 vessels were apprehended, mostly in northern waters; this year the tally has reached 69. Masters are fined in the first instance; jailed for repeat offenses. Boats are impounded (vessel owners pay a bond to retrieve them) or burned at sea if they're not seaworthy. "They've started coming further down into...
...other scandals, covert ops have routinely been lawyered in advance.) As Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll points out in his new book, Ghost Wars, Attorney General Janet Reno, among others, wouldn't allow a Bond-style license to kill, so Clinton's MONs would say things like, "apprehend with lethal force as authorized...