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...told that there are four rather than eight terrorists. And someone forgot to order up the armored cars for the final assault until 20 minutes after the shooting starts. The resulting debacle now becomes a tragicomic debacle, with German policemen shooting each other, and some two hours into the shootout the Palestinians kill all the hostages with a hand grenade and machine gun fire. This from the nation that gave the world Blitzkrieg. They then follow up by lying to the world's media, sending out a global sigh of relief - which makes the front page from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revisiting the Olympics' Darkest Day | 9/12/2000 | See Source »

...months ago, though, some prisoners lost it, lost the hope, and one of them took a guard hostage. Burl Cain couldn't talk the hope back into him, and they had a shootout. "He got one of ours, and we got one of theirs," he says. "It all worked out in the end." And wrong as that sounds, in Angola that's how it is, and there's no hiding from it, and I feel so lucky to go back to a place where heaven and hell and sin and redemption are just philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Angola, La.: The Lessons of Cain | 7/10/2000 | See Source »

...that focuses on how much action Williams got from his screen sister, Maureen ("Marcia") McCormick. But at heart it's really about how darn much you love the Bradys and, by extension, TV. In one scene the Brady boys explore the Paramount lot, racing a cart through a gangster shootout and playing with phasers on the set of Star Trek. It's a big, slobbery kiss to TV past, and an ironic one coming from the network that vaporized the original Trek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Tale Told By An Idiot Box | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

Early in the first half, the game looked as though it would be a shootout, when the two teams combined for nine goals in the opening 13 minutes...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Lacrosse Loses 11-10 | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

Teams, like St. Lawrence, that cannot compete with Harvard in a shootout must look to pack it in on defense, rely on forechecking to create turnovers in the neutral zone and convert on the ensuing odd-man rushes...

Author: By Zevi M. Gutfreund, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zevi Metal: W. Hockey Still Has Long Road | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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