Word: doorsteps
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...some seedy process server comes to the door tell them a mile away, some down at the heels hopeless looking bastard they get seven dollars a summons he has to hand it to you, has to touch you with it, see some burnt out case out here on the doorstep you open it and all he says is Mrs Booth? hits you with the paper and that's it, don't open the door...
Some U.S. officials privately complain that many Mexican police aid the Zetas. And other potential microcartels are proliferating on the U.S.'s doorstep: in the Tijuana--San Diego corridor, police are dealing with a gang known as Narco-Juniors, a group of affluent juvenile delinquents recruited as hit men in the 1990s by the Tijuana drug cartel. Authorities in the Juarez--El Paso corridor, meanwhile, report a growing presence of the Mara Salvatrucha, a machete-wielding gang that has terrified Central America in recent years. The threat from groups like the Zetas may persist for years. "This is like...
...overwrought" when they fail, films that swamp our eyes and yank at our hearts. Cinematographer Gu Changwei has shot many of Chinese cinema's most imperial tours de force?Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and Ju Dou, Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Jiang Wen's Devils at the Doorstep. But his directorial debut Peacock, surprise winner of the Silver Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, is a bird of a far less flashy feather. A portrait of a family's struggles in a small Chinese city in the 1970s, Peacock draws its considerable power from...
...tick short of an NCAA tournament record for consecutive goals. Though Harvard lost the face-off following Collins’ score, rookie Tyler Magura quickly regained possession for the Crimson and tested Regan from the point. Though he recorded the initial save, Regan left the rebound on the doorstep for Meintel, who flipped his no-angle second effort across the crease and into the top corner of the cage on the far side to restore Harvard’s one-goal lead...
...just eight seconds later, one tick short of an NCAA tournament record. Though Harvard lost the faceoff following Collins’ score, rookie Tyler Magura quickly regained possession for the Crimson and tested Regan from the point. Though he recorded the initial save, Regan left the rebound on the doorstep for Meintel, who flipped his no-angle second effort across the crease and into the top corner of the cage on the far side to restore Harvard’s one-goal lead...