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...answers. Such self-knowledge is a fine thing, and the movie is pleased enough with itself to suggest that she's gained this in the time she spends with Brett and Gordy. Or at least she's learned to voice the truth. On paper that might have made me scoff - Martine is such a sketch of the bad girl in need - but Hurt and Redmayne sold me on the notion. As for the yellow handkerchief of the title, I'd have dismissed it as a cheesy device if it weren't for the fact that I'm still cherishing...
That extraordinary scene, captured last year by the rider's own helmet-mounted camera - the video was confiscated as evidence and made public by authorities - is even more extraordinary because it actually ended with an arrest. Usually, the police are no match for the racing bikes - known on the street as "crotch rockets...
...YouTube. And if it involves successfully eluding the police, all the better. "The more cops that are on you, the better rider you have to be to get away," Segui says. "If you get caught, you're not a great rider." In the case of the arrest that Segui made, even getting thrown in jail didn't seem to matter to the 19-year-old rider, who did not have a driver's license, let alone a motorcycle license. "He said, 'The risk, it's worth it,' " Segui recalls. "He said that out of 30 times, if he gets caught...
...They often find themselves the Senate's punching bag; whenever an amendment is rejected or a ruling is made Senators know exactly whom to call. "The Parliamentarians have 100 bosses - pretty difficult to please all of them all of the time, in fact it is hard to please even one sometimes," says Davis, the Democrats' secretary. "So regardless of their decision, someone will not be pleased." (Read "Fixing the Senate by Forcing Real Filibusters...
Similar promises were also reportedly made last week by the director of a large steel plant, also in Isfahan, after workers announced the beginning of a hunger strike to protest large discrepancies in pay. Reassuring words from the director were followed by a tour of the plant by security staff, who demanded that the organizers of the strike be turned in to company management...