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...flags of their own nations. When even the French are giving it up for the U.S.A., you know no one is going to get upset over starting the Games by displaying the tattered flag found at the World Trade Center and listening, one more time, to that one cop who can sing God Bless America. Or to George Bush's revving up the athletes by yelling "Let's roll...
...accepting the consequences of your actions is morally wrong, and using an abortion as a cop out to avoid the natural consequence of sex—namely pregnancy—is no different from passing the blame on to your sister for breaking your mother’s favorite lamp. In other words, let the fetus suffer the consequences for your mistake—so long as you don’t have to face the shame that is appropriate for your lack of self-control. That is to what it boils down in the end. A woman does have...
...meter’s run out—but there’s no parking ticket. We figure maybe the time spent with the people’s preacher had given us some kind of good parking-cop karma...
...Administration's internal debate was starting to look like a good cop-bad cop routine, Rumsfeld's prison tour - which included liberal Democratic Senators like California's Diane Feinstein, a prisons expert - seemed to have least blunted international criticism about the detainees' treatment at Camp X-Ray. "I would rather be in an 8-by-8 cell with a (tropical) breeze than to be locked down at Folsom Prison," Feinstein said after her own close-up look at conditions inside X-Ray, an arid patch beneath Guantanamo's hills where Haitian refugees were once held. Another Democratic Senator, Hawaii...
...Anthony LaPaglia plays him in Lantana, police detective Leon Zat is as harsh and abrupt as his surname. He is several things: a tough, angry cop, impatient with a dismal caseload; a middle-aged man, jogging through his chest pains, trying to get back in shape; an unhappy husband glumly trying to find some magic in an affair that's all grim haste and guilty furtiveness...