Word: knifings
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...Newman, who knows better) goes heavy on "elf" puns; the direction (by Jeannot Szwarc, who doesn't) is in a style that could be called International Mystical. Moore does an excruciatingly ingratiating Shirley Temple impression; as Santa, David Huddleston (Bad Company) says ho ho ho a lot, apparently at knife point; stalwart John Lithgow is amusing as a Nixon-like baron of the toy industry who figures to capitalize on gift giving by establishing a new holiday on March 25: Christmas II. There is little likelihood of a Santa Claus II, forcing the Salkinds to turn to the Easter Bunny...
Within two minutes after the shooting began, the gunmen escaped down a flight of stairs and headed for an employee garage, where one of them pulled a knife on an airport official and commandeered his Mercedes-Benz. In a running gun battle with police, the terrorists tossed a grenade at a pursuing patrol car (it missed), and police bullets flattened a tire and pierced the gas tank of the Mercedes. Just two miles from the airport, the killers were stopped. The toll: three dead, including one of the terrorists, and 47 wounded...
...admire President Bush's sincere attempt to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq and bring democracy to the Middle East, his policies are doomed to failure. In Arab Muslim states, real democracy is an impossibility. In the Arab world, history has clearly demonstrated that the man with the longest knife will rule. Instead of trying to force democracy where it cannot take root, at a cost of thousands of lives, we should choose our man in the region and make sure he has the longest knife. Peter E. Goldman Surfside, Florida, U.S. The Stem-Cell Breakthrough "Inside the Korean Cloning...
...been walking home drunk, clad in shorts and sandals, when Colono, who sat in a parked car, heckled him for being “shitfaced.” After a 70-second brawl, Pring-Wilson struck Colono five times with a three-and-a-half inch Spyderco military knife. One of the blows pierced the victim’s heart...
Just when I thought the camera-phone revolution was long dead, I meet the camera phone that could revive that whole scene. Sprint's new MM-a800, built by Samsung, is a Swiss Army knife of a phone with an exceptional camera at the center. The shame is that Sprint's networked entertainment offerings don't live up to its hardware...