Word: hit-and-run
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...Lalloway. "California policy is to have frequent and continuing contact with both parents." (Trope was unavailable for comment). The ruling came after Spears' former bodyguard told the court and the Today show that he had seen her doing drugs, and it also followed Spears being charged with a hit-and-run and driving without a valid license for allegedly crashing into a parked car in August...
...Stoddart, who also accompanied Blair on his election campaign in 1997, observes: "Brown is going to be a very different sort of leader. He spends a lot of time listening to people one-to-one. Blair was more hit-and-run." The photographer has watched the outgoing Chancellor relax into his new role, but says there are still limits to his patience with the imagemakers assisting him: "Whenever they come at him with a comb, he's like a young child and bears their attentions for a while before ruffling his hand through his hair...
...While outright victory is not a possibility for the N.P.A., neither is extinction. Victor asserts that Arroyo's "all-out war" is unwinnable. The Philippine army is thinly dispersed, he argues, capable of engaging only a quarter of the N.P.A.'s 120 "fronts" nationwide while remaining vulnerable to hit-and-run tactics. "We have learned a lot about guerrilla warfare in 37 years," he warns. Felipe Miranda, a political-science professor at the University of the Philippines, agrees: "The military does not have the capability, in terms of both logistics and manpower, to deal with an insurgency that has been...
...military group last month. He's still missing the point, says one frustrated officer: "It's an irrelevant comparison because those types of encounters are rare or nonexistent in Iraq." Says another officer: "We're not fighting the Big Red Soviet Army here, we're dealing with hit-and-run guerrilla warfare...
...intersecting lives led by victims of a car crash. “21 Grams,” his ambitious first Hollywood film, came in 2003, overwrought and under-felt. Like “Amores Perros,” it followed several fractured lives thrown together following a deadly hit-and-run auto accident. Now there’s “Babel,” which strays—slightly—from the car mishap scenario. It examines the struggles of those affected by a bullet that hits an American tourist on a Moroccan tour bus.This thematic repetition...