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...this simple, why during executions by firing squad (such as the one last month in Utah), does one of the guns contain blanks, not bullets? No one shooter definitively knows if he fired the fatal bullet. If the job of an executioner were morally justified beyond doubt, there would be no need to lift off any individual's shoulders the responsibility for the execution...
...gave the men no information. But when he learned about the thick dossier the detectives had managed to compile about Wigand, a former vice president of Brown & Williamson and the highest-ranking tobacco executive ever to turn whistle blower, he was appalled. "It hit me like a silver bullet," says Alfarano. "[B&W] can deal with one or two defectors, but I think [they wanted] to send a signal to anybody else who's thinking about testifying...
...Goffigan never got there because he was hit by a stray bullet from a gang shootout that night and died the next...
...death. McGonigal, a Jesuit priest, had found his way to Vietnam as a chaplain. During the Tet offensive in early 1968, he seized an M-16 and tried to storm the citadel in the old imperial capital of Hue. He died going up the hill, with a communist's bullet in his head...
...made his name with such incendiary devices as Bullet in the Head and Hard-Boiled--furious meditations on manhood as a criminal state of grace. Broken Arrow is jokier, less resonant than those dark epics, but it's still a swell night at the movies. The audience gets as pulverizing a workout as the stars do. Or rather, the stars' stunt doubles, who deserve Oscars for best supporting masochism...