Word: copping
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...Pond, editor of IP, an English-language quarterly published by the German Council on Foreign Relations. "It's not like before the Iraq war, when there was a plan to go to war and Washington was marching toward it." That allows for a coordinated diplomatic effort, where a good cop?bad cop routine could get results...
...personal favorite is an adventure featuring The Spectre by Chris Duffy and Craig Thompson. The character, less well-known than many of the others of the book, is a cop named Jim Corrigan who was murdered by gangsters, but reincarnated to punish evil as God’s spirit of Vengeance (yes, comics occasionally acknowledge the theological conundrums posed by a world of Übermenschen). This story delves into what a police precinct would be like with one of the detectives secretly parading around as the Spirit of Vengeance: the supply person who forgets to order a three-ring...
...usage of the marriage issue as a political “wedge.” He had very little to say about the deeper philosophical or moral case against same-sex marriage, but rather bemoaned that it was an issue at all. This is the cheapest sort of intellectual cop-out, and just another symbol of the increasing poverty of our public discourse. In reality the “wedge issues” are important enough that attempts to limit their discussion are opportunistic and short-sighted at best, and negligent and irresponsible at their worst...
...female Antichrist is Paris Hilton. But a supernatural angle can also offer new twists on played-out drama formats. For Caron, an admitted skeptic about psychics, the attraction of Medium was writing about a woman whose gift separates her from other people--as opposed to producing TV's umpteenth cop series. "There are more than enough crime shows, and I had no interest in being the next one," says Caron...
...crime show. Its grisly murder tales out of the CSI playbook are average at best. Medium distinguishes itself as a character study: Allison is still learning to trust her own abilities and handle the responsibility they impose, and Arquette portrays her with a refreshing mundanity. "Allison's not a cop," Arquette says. "She's a housewife. It's that conflict that interests me: trying to be a good mother while at the same time dealing with the dead guy sitting at the kitchen table." The contrast plays out in Allison's gently sparring relationship with her husband Joe (Jake Weber...