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...tooling down a circuitous highway while Letty hangs by a strap on the back of a huge semi speeding just in front of him. (It's just as well Rodriguez isn't at the wheel; as fans of thesmokinggun.com know, the actress does not have an exemplary driving record.) Letty manages to slip into Dom's car just before the truck crashes and explodes. But the semi hasn't completed its mischief: it starts tumbling toward them. With no escape, Dom guns his car toward the truck, which, following the physical laws of action movies (cf. Live Free...
...murder, as well as for that pesky Mexico-U.S. drug-running you may have read about recently. He and Brian, whom Dom has never forgiven for falling in love with Mia, quickly infiltrate the gang. They're hired by Campos (John Ortiz), a mouthy middleman, to drive $60 million in heroin bricks across the border for a mysterious pan-American scurvisto named Braga, whose identity gets a longer buildup than Orson Welles' Harry Lime did in The Third Man. There's a little more plot and a lot more sensational driving, all in aid of reconciling Toretto...
...Drive nice cars
...Despite these handicaps, they have been able to draw on seemingly limitless reserves of drive and ambition to reach their present position. "We will crush all the teams," says Abid's brother Karim Saddiq, a 25-year-old opening batsman, with the unshakeable belief that typifies the squad. "It's my mission to be player of the tournament." The players have already shown their mettle in South Africa, winning their first two games against Denmark and Bermuda with poised batting and destructive bowling. If they finish in the top four of their group - which also includes, the Netherlands...
...would lead to sharper oversight of compensation and bonuses and tie them more specifically to long-term performance. In other words, there was something for everyone. Rudd's conclusion, echoed by many other delegates: "People beforehand said there would be a divide, but in fact there was an overwhelming drive toward achieving real action, real commitments and real timelines." Or as Obama put it: "I think...