Word: bulletion
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...window, he leaps out, head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears a voice from afar saying, "They were just decoys," and BANG! he's killed by a shell that enters his skull from the back and explodes out of his forehead. Then, like a missile shifting into reverse, the bullet retraces...
...permit the holding of a credible poll. We can't ask the people to cast their vote on June 27 when that vote will cost their lives. We will no longer participate in this violent sham of an election." Tsvangirai added that Mugabe had "declared war by saying the bullet has replaced the ballot...
...Adam Sandler, and one-third written by him (his co-conspirators are Robert Smigel and Judd Apatow), the picture bears many of the latter's trademark moves. That is to say it is simultaneously a little bit vulgar and a little bit sentimental and comes out as a virtually bullet-proof blend for the mass, summertime audience...
...crimson, black, and white in the press box; we usually avoid letting out a cheer when Harvard slams home the game-winner. (Usually.) And while it may be tough to report that our lab partner scored an own goal in last night’s loss, we bite the bullet and do it. (Usually.)It is in fact at the other end of the relationship spectrum that we seem to struggle more: serving as partners of and advocates for the athletes and coaches that we cover.Now, I am not suggesting that we take players’ gripes directly to press...
...penalty cases is intended to minimize the chances of an error. In the Brooks case, Texas may have killed the wrong man. Brooks and a partner were both convicted in 1977 of murdering an automobile mechanic the year before. It never came out in trial who actually fired the bullet that killed the mechanic. But Brooks’ partner, by using the appeals process, was allowed to plead guilty last year to having committed the crime. He was given a 40-year sentence, and could be eligible for parole in just two years. Brooks, who maintained his innocence, was slain...