Word: bulletproofing
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...feel at home with this movie. I've worked with most of the cast before; that gives me great peace of mind. I was meant to be action director for Chow Yun-fat's Bulletproof Monk, as well as a new project by Steven Seagal. But I pulled out of both. I wanted to make history with this film. I'm sure Jet Li feels the same...
...almost two years later, Bush needed no help remembering the general's name. Behind a huge pane of bulletproof glass that Secret Service agents had wheeled in front of the window of the presidential suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City, Bush was finally sitting down for his first face-to-face meeting with Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf. "You were in an extraordinarily difficult position," Bush told him, describing his guest's decision to join the anti-Taliban coalition a month before. "And you made the right choice." Musharraf, however, wanted something in return, something that would...
...only respite from this room are his trips to the antigraft court, the Sandiganbayan, which he decries as "a waste of money. The cars, the helicopters, the riot squad, it costs too much." But he has no choice as he presses himself into a black, bulletproof Toyota Land Cruiser with his lawyers. On Commonwealth Avenue his jeep passes graffiti sprayed on the meridian: FREE ERAP, POLITICAL PRISONER; and then swings into the guarded parking lot behind the building...
...Alliance said it had taken dozens of Taliban troops captive; many more were on the highway, headed out of town. Across the northern tier of Afghanistan, the Taliban abandoned several garrisons but made fierce efforts to defend others. "When they first arrived here, these fanatics believed they were bulletproof," said an Alliance spokesman. "Now they've been shown they...
...Alliance said it had taken dozens of Taliban troops captive; many more were on the highway, headed out of town. Across the northern tier of Afghanistan, the Taliban abandoned several garrisons but made fierce efforts to defend others. "When they first arrived here, these fanatics believed they were bulletproof," said an Alliance spokesman. "Now they've been shown they...