Word: copping
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Giacino was the lead author of a landmark 2002 paper that defined a condition known as the "minimally conscious state." Minimally conscious patients are more responsive to the world than vegetative patients and, significantly, retain the potential to become fully conscious. The famous 1996 case of the "coma cop" involved a police officer who was almost certainly minimally conscious and briefly recovered consciousness after seven years. Schiavo's parents tried but failed to establish that this was their daughter's condition...
...figurines that were smuggled to Hong Kong proved more elusive. The Xi'an police believe they were sneaked out of Hong Kong into Switzerland, where strict export documentation isn't required. From there, say the police, they made their way to New York City. Tang Xiaojin, the Xi'an cop charged with tracking down the figurines, discovered this by accident when he was leafing through a copy of the March 2002 catalog Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art from Sotheby's. Flipping past treasure after treasure, Tang suddenly stopped. Lot 32, credited as belonging to "various owners," was very...
...seems, has been Princess Perky, and who is fine, not great, in the role. Anyway, the sex is mostly in the talk, which is in its way as violent as the grisly murder tableaux. Ruffalo's whispery voice, his Brando-wannabe mannerisms and the ambiguities of a shady cop in a whodunit - he's one of those movie characters who are guilty until proved interesting - make Molloy's every flirtation sound like a threat, a dirty secret, a dream as scary as it is seductive. In the Cut prizes atmosphere over coherence; it's as much a thing of pieces...
...latest agreement signals the fact that Washington's closest ally on Iraq has no interest in pursuing military action against Iran. Still, it may well be that the "regime-change" saber-rattling in Washington and the recent history of Iraq will certainly have helped the Europeans play "good cop" to Washington's out-of-control guy, and also may have helped sway the internal Iranian debate on the nuclear question. Although hard-liners have urged defiance of IAEA demands, President Mohammed Khatami's reformists have warned that failure to comply with the IAEA demands, even if they are deemed unfair...
...every moment onscreen, shows the intelligence and vitality in journalistic curiosity, fills out the facts of the case with humor and humanity. Her Veronica is a perky soul who is nonetheless weighed down by a reporter's "burden to know." She carries the same awful responsibility as a good cop or soldier: to make things better, whatever the cost. Veronica Guerin paid with her life. This film would make her proud, for it is ultimately not depressing but--we say without a shred of journalistic irony--inspiring. --By Richard Corliss