Word: hit-and-run
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...Armani armor. At a 1996 premiere of Mission: Impossible he lifted two boys over a barricade to prevent them from being crushed. A few months later, while sailing in the Mediterranean, he rescued castaways from a burning boat. Also that year, he swooped in to comfort a hit-and-run victim and paid her hospital bill. Just another lucky citizen, saved by the beau...
...John Burnham Schwartz's swift, smooth second novel, Reservation Road (Knopf; 292 pages; $24), the three-sided relationship between Ethan Learner, a pacifist English professor; his wife Grace, a trusting garden designer; and Dwight Arno, a temperamental probate lawyer, converges on a common point of pain: the hit-and-run death of 10-year-old Josh Learner, Ethan and Grace's music-prodigy son, at the cold steel hands of Dwight's Ford Taurus. The death is an accident, all blood and vectors, but the dark, emotional dance that follows is shown to be as inevitable as fate...
...released. White House aides charged that Starr had gone way too far in including so much embarrassing detail, all designed to do nothing less than force the President from office one way or another. Including all those blue footnotes, the Clinton team argues, was simply "part of a hit-and-run smear campaign." The President, they argued in their rebuttal on Saturday, had already admitted that he had had an improper relationship and apologized repeatedly for it. That may have been a sin, but it was no crime. "The referral is so loaded with irrelevant and unnecessary graphic and salacious...
...have no justification at all... They plainly do not relate, even arguably, to activities which may be within the definition of "sexual relations" in the President's [Paula] Jones deposition, which is the excuse advanced [by the Office of the Independent Counsel]. They are simply part of a hit-and-run smear campaign, and their inclusion says volumes about the OIC's tactics and objectives...
...disease outbreaks, appreciated the enormousness of the job ahead of him. Miller's nurses had turned up no food or other contaminant all the victims had shared. This left only two possibilities: "Water and air," Breuer says, "two things epidemiologists hate." A contamination of this kind was a hit-and-run affair; the bacterial colonies could stream into a community, do their damage and flow out of the ecosystem in a matter of days, before the epidemiologists could even get their equipment unpacked...