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...eyes of much of the world, Sheriff Bush has become an outlaw cowboy. With a posse of American capitalists, Bush wants a bloody shootout and sizable heist that will ruffle petticoats across the global village...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: Bucking Cowboy Diplomacy | 4/1/2003 | See Source »

...lost, with mourner's at Qasre's funeral charging the PUK with his assassination, rejecting claims that government soldiers had overreacted in nervous anticipation of another suicide bomber. That suggests they've been pushed back into the arms of Ansar, who may be the biggest beneficiaries of the latest shootout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Killings in Kurdistan | 3/5/2003 | See Source »

...DIED. H. NAGAPPA, 66, former minister in the southern state of Karnataka; from a bullet through the heart after being kidnapped in August by India's most wanted criminal, the elusive forest-dwelling bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan; in the Chengdi forests, India. Veerappan claims Nagappa was killed during a shootout with the police, but the authorities dismiss that as unlikely, saying he was shot at close range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 12/16/2002 | See Source »

...sure, Hunsberger can take a measure of confidence from his previous success against the Crimson. If he can find the weaknesses in the Harvard secondary like he did briefly last year, tomorrow’s game has the potential to turn into a shootout...

Author: By Evan Powers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Football Wants Columbia To Swallow Lions' Pride | 11/8/2002 | See Source »

...Khava Barayeva is revered by Chechen guerrillas for her suicide car-bomb attack on a Russian base in the family's home village of Alkhan-Yurt. She was 19 when she blew up herself and two soldiers in June 2000. Arbi was killed last June in a six-day shootout with Russian forces, who displayed his body on a stretcher on television to convince skeptics he was really gone. Those who knew Movsar well say his turn had come. "He came to Moscow to die," said a Chechen associate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chechen Suicide Squad | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

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