Word: helplessly
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BABY. Deceptively helpless creature with remarkable hidden powers. Initially nocturnal, though compensates by making the world thrillingly new for adults, when they are sufficiently awake to notice...
...case the upcoming dialogue between India and Pakistan fails to yield any progress. Then, says one commander from the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Pakistan's support will resume?covertly, as before. Several of the militants interviewed by Time failed to mask their sense of betrayal by Islamabad. "We feel helpless because we never thought that Pakistan would stop supporting us," says one ex-militant from the Lashkar-e-Toiba who recently gave up his cross-border attacks out of frustration. This indicates that ISI, despite its many denials of helping the militants, still flexes some power over the groups' chiefs...
...single night in Tsimshatsui. But this time around, To has forsaken any easy moral high ground. PTU stands for Police Tactical Unit, a team of elite blue-bereted Hong Kong cops led by the flinty Simon Yam. Yam and his jackbooted troops spend most of the film terrorizing helpless criminal punks, who are only too eager to sell each other out. They're on the lookout for a gun lost by Detective Lo (Suet Lam), an obese bumbler who makes Inspector Clouseau look like Gil Grissom from...
...there have been several events like this that have taken place and been blamed on the ULLF," he says. "But it was not us. We believe it was organized by the government using Hmong people who serve in the Lao army." For his part, Moua portrays the Hmong as helpless innocents. "We only defend and run," he says. "If the Lao troops launch an assault, our ammo won?t even last an hour...
...that conversation in November, 2000. "I had talked to him just a week before. Everything had been fine." Not long after, the diagnosis was conclusive: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als), a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease that attacks nerve cells and pathways in the brain and spinal cord. Signorini was helpless against the progressive paralysis that eventually froze every part of his body. He died six months ago at 42, leaving a wife and four children. Seemingly out of nowhere, a once tireless athlete is crushed by this cruel and mysterious illness, commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease...