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...question him. They approached him, Carroll said, calling out, "Police! Sir, please stop. We need to ask you a question." Diallo did not stop, he added, and instead headed to the back of the vestibule. There, Carroll said, he reached into his back pocket and pulled out a black object. "Gun!" Carroll screamed, as he fired his weapon at Diallo. Officer Edward McMellon followed suit, and the two cops half-ran, half-fell down the steps of the building...
...late." And Bush was adamant: the whole point of their strategy--of building the unprecedented war chest and collecting all the endorsements--was to get so far out in front that there would be no need to lurch to the right or engage in intraparty fratricide. "Our object is to win a nomination that is worth having," said Bush's chief strategist, Karl Rove. Go negative now, and you lose people's respect...
...island and for prisoners, the idea of flight. The feather has to do with defying gravity, up or down. Also, the feather, white feathers particularly, can be a symbol of cowardice. I like the story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those things are easy to collect and they're not things that people mind you taking...
...told TIME late last week, "I guess we'll lose New Hampshire. But we aren't going to lose South Carolina. And we aren't going to lose the nomination. Forbes went negative in '96, and look what it got him--the eternal scorn of his own party. Our object is to conduct a campaign that gives us the best shot at winning in November. And if that gives us a little short-term pain, then fine...
...aggressive anti-crime initiative - gave Diallo no warning before firing on him, defense lawyers claim the victim ignored their shouts to stop, and "acted suspiciously" by ducking into the vestibule of his apartment building. Inside the entryway, Diallo turned away from the police and pulled a black object out of his back pocket - police thought the object, which was in fact a wallet, was a gun, and opened fire. The melee that followed was exacerbated, defense lawyers allege, when one of the policemen fell on his back, prompting terrified firing from his partners...