Word: copping
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...Well, when we pitched the show, it was a cop show. When we left the room, it had become a female cop show. I would prefer to keep it a surprise...
...there's a suggestion of paradox in those two achievements--a mixture of classiness and looseness, of discipline and danger, of dedication and recklessness--Winslet doesn't cop to it. They seem to her as natural partners as her frank language and posh accent. The secret to nude scenes, which she says she hates, is establishing "a relationship with the director where you can say, 'Look, I'd really rather they didn't see my [British slang for private part],' or 'I've got a nasty mosquito bite on my left bum cheek. Can we not shoot that low please...
Third, condemning Bush's conduct of the Iraq war has become an overly handy cop-out for people who don't want to support the war but can't bring themselves to say it was wrong. This would include almost every Democratic candidate in last week's midterm elections. What would these Monday-morning quarterbacks have done differently? Sent in more American troops? Puh-leeze...
...Hastert (R-Ill.) will not seek reelection to the Republican leadership when his members return as a minority party after taking heavy losses in Tuesday's elections, a Republican official tells TIME. Hastert, 64, a low-key former high school wrestling coach, was beloved by members as a "good cop," compared to the enforcer style of the longtime number two leader, former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). But Hastert was badly damaged by questions about how much he had known about former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and his contact with pages, and members felt Hastert also handled the aftermath...
...administration’s top civil rights enforcer, Deval L. Patrick ’78 investigated cases ranging from predatory lending to church burnings. But he first began acquiring real-life detective skills long before—as a freshman in Holworthy Hall, where he religiously watched the TV cop series “Kojak...