Word: cowboy
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...Sensenbrenner, a conservative Republican, said he was "deeply troubled by the Department of Justice's failure to consult with Congress over changes to investigative policies that have been in place for more than 20 years." Civil libertarians warned that however sensible the reforms sounded, the potential for abuse by "cowboy" agents was great and that the letter and spirit of the Constitution do not endorse the sacrifice of privacy for security. "You could make the country safer from terror by attending every meeting at every mosque, but do you want to do that?" asks Robert Litt, a top Justice official...
Then, five weeks ago, Cowboy Pictures—a “small but smart” company, according to Toback—agreed to release the film without video rights. Cowboy Pictures took over the deals Toback had negotiated with Brattle and Cinema Village and now plans to expand the film’s release to more than 75 cities...
...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
Blade II is not without its shortcomings—some tracks, such as the Eve and Fatboy Slim collaborative, “Cowboy,” and Cypress Hill and Roni Size’s “Child of the Wild West” suffer from painfully annoying choruses that are repeated far too many times. Mos Def’s angry nasal rantings run incongruous to the downbeat trip-hop of Massive Attack on “I Against I,” and Danny Saber and Marco Beltrami’s “Theme From Blade?...
...dangerous charade. If the Europeans don't go along with whatever military action the U.S. takes, too bad, says the White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That is the kind of cowboy chatter that makes U.S. allies so itchy, but some on Blair's team have grown used to Bush's bark being worse than his bite. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans a Blair adviser. "It's a little...