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...takes a meeting with a drug boss. Mackey has brought him a big dope deal with another gang--secretly setting him up in order to secure for himself an immunity deal with the feds for a list of crimes that starts with murder and continues the length of your arm. The kingpin offers him a drink to take off the "edge." Mackey refuses. "The edge is where we live," he says. "People try to convince themselves otherwise. It's just an exercise in self-deception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fitting End for The Shield | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...chuckled, “at his age, I was like, ‘Do you want fries with that?’”), but Chris was serious. He spoke in long, polished sentences, occasionally flashing his white grin at the audience. Only his left arm, frozen in one position along the arm of the chair, suggested any hint of nerves. Bumatai remembers meeting Chris for the first time. He had it all: the suit, the tie, the high-school-debate-team poise. “It’s like he was created by central casting...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Kids Who Would Be King | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...police deployed to keep order looked on. While awaiting the judges' decision overnight, Chen claimed that a policeman hit him, which police deny. After he was taken to the hospital for two hours to check his wound, he was found to have a slight muscle injury in his right arm. Chen is now at the Taipei Detention Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan Arrests Former President | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...give the impression that she may have walked with a limp, or dragged her feet. The presence of the hollowed-out tortoise shells, combined with intact bone pieces of leopards and other creatures - the complete forearm of a wild boar, for example, was placed under the woman's own arm - suggest that those living around her believed she had some sort of animist power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 12,000-Year-Old Shaman Unearthed in Israel | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...came when Connolly, the Crimson’s starting goalie, was given the chance to play in the field and scored his first collegiate goal on offense for Harvard. With the shot clock quickly running out, Connolly bounced in a shot from about 15 meters out with his strong arm that Crimson fans have come to recognize over the past four years.“That goal was a lot of fun,” Connolly remarked. “It was a great way to cap off my career here at Harvard.”Junior Nikhil Balaraman made...

Author: By Thomas D. Hutchison, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors’ Last Games Bring Mixed Results | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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