Word: crackly
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...charges, which have been difficult to prosecute in court, but on charges of being an accomplice to rape after commanding an underage follower to marry an older man against her wishes. The Eldorado prosecution follows from that case: a fresh allegation concerning an underage, unwilling bride pushed authorities to crack down hard...
...doesn't look like the usual Mexican telenovela, packed with scantily clad girls, dashing macho men and unceasing melodrama. And there's a lot more about Capadocia, HBO's first attempt to crack the Mexican market, that sets it apart from any other Latin American TV production. Shot on 400,000 feet of film, with three movie directors and 300 actors, it is probably the most expensive TV series ever made south of the Rio Grande. HBO executives wouldn't release the exact cost, but said that one episode of Capadocia costs about the same as 250 episodes...
...Ashwin’s a really special talent to watch in doubles, whether he makes his shots or not, and Sasha is very understated, but hugely dangerous,” Fish says. “When his confidence is up, he can crack a winner from anywhere...
...reasonably straight-forward idea, the idea of person to person betting - there's a lot of person to person stuff going on - and I guess it was fairly easy for anyone to identify that if you could create a person to person business on the web, and you could crack that particular space, you had a big hit on your hands. But I think it was visualizing how it would work, rather than that the space existed, that was the innovative part...
...confrontation with al-Sadr's Shi'ite militia with shoring up government support among Iraq's Kurds and Sunnis. "You've seen a coalescing of a center in Iraqi politics." Maliki, also a Shi'ite, had drawn criticism in the past by Sunni factions in particular for failing to crack down on the Mahdi Army, which is blamed for much of the sectarian violence in Iraq...