Word: crackly
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...hack” can result in a lengthy prison sentence, few students will dare partake in such pranks in the future. This tradition deserves better than to be quashed by overzealous prosecutors and an unsympathetic judge. Even worse, by providing impetus for police at other colleges to crack down on traditions they have grown weary of, a conviction could have repercussions that extend beyond...
Unable to crack Penn and Princeton’s stranglehold on Ivy League supremacy, Sullivan nonetheless brought respect to the program with a number of winning seasons in the 1990s and the early part of this decade. Still, he has failed to crack .500 in the league since 1996 and has watched his teams skid to prolonged late-season losing streaks in each of the past two years...
...just Allen's serpentine poise as the officers quiz him that seems inhuman? You might crack if you were confronted with mounds of damning, if circumstantial, evidence. But Allen parries each thrust or shrugs it off, never taking their bait, meeting their suspicions with his steely stare. You'll feel a chill in the theater, and in your blood, for it's here that Zodiac becomes the good movie the real killer was waiting for. And no one could play him better than Lynch...
Unfortunately, the heavily armed raiders were a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, who promptly gunned the octogenarian down. The cops thought they were busting a crack den, but only found a small amount of pot—the raid was a mistake. Poor Kathryn joined a long series of other accidental victims of U.S. paramilitary-style police raids...
...military base in Afghanistan on Feb. 27 killed about two dozen people--and underscored the mission of Dick Cheney, who had arrived less than 24 hours earlier to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The Vice President had just come from Pakistan, where he urged President Pervez Musharraf to crack down on the activities of the Taliban--which claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was timed to Cheney's visit--and al-Qaeda...