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...When they hit me, I thought a bullet went through my brain, and I thought, ‘Oh my god, I have died,’” Chen said. “While they were hitting me, I pressed the emergency button...
...legendary wit's best lines: "Of course Douglas had quite lost his looks and I thought that must have been a great tragedy for him," writes Gielgud. Marlon Brando, filming Julius Caesar in 1952, is "a funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very little humor and seems quite unaware of anything except the development of his own evident talents." His assessment of Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh, whom he directed in Twelfth Night in 1955, is typically memorable: "He is a born autocrat and must always be right ? He dares...
...blue-and-white Nissan pickups, he watched as she walked toward class to make sure she got inside safely. Suddenly a submachine gun fitted with a silencer opened fire from across the street. Glass shattered as the windshield became a web of cracks. Dhahir's driver took a bullet in the head and another in the neck and died. Dhahir was luckier. Three slugs went into his left shoulder and one punched a hole in his right hand, but he survived. "It was a well-planned operation," says Dhahir, who has returned to work at the station in downtown Baghdad...
Students leaving foreign locales for Cambridge have long dealt with a disappointing drop in the number of transportation options open to them. Tokyo’s longtime bullet-train commuters clamber drearily onto the unreliable T, while quaint Europeans enthused of the unicycle are frowned at by our city’s hard-headed pedestrians. And then there are those from even more exotic climes like that of, well, the rest of the urban United States, who discover that on the tortured “grid” of metropolitan Boston, taxicab rides are ever-unfolding, decidedly meta Borgesian enigmas...
...Number of cases in which evidence from FBI bullet tests has been used in court...