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...guide that determines which weapon a police officer should use in any given situation. Yet these standards vary from city to city, and no universal code applies to the country's law enforcement force as a whole. "If a guy has a stick, you don't pull a shotgun out," says John Ryan, a former CIA agent and assistant director of the special investigations group of the Government Accountability Office, who oversaw a 2005 study on the use-of-force policies regarding Tasers. Beyond those basics, however, individual police departments have the freedom to create their own policies - regarding Tasers...
...four Harvard touchdowns came on the ground, though all four came from Crimson quarterbacks. Senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti scored two short touchdowns, while freshman backup Collier Winters had the finest day of his collegiate career, running for 28 yards and two touchdowns on three carries out of a shotgun package. Winters has yet to attempt a pass since first appearing against Cornell on Oct. 6, but has nine carries for 39 yards in three games.Senior fullback Noah Van Niel sat out the game to rest and give Dartmouth a different look.“He was a little bit dinged...
...haunting piano lines of “Videotape” battling the martial polyrhythms of looped percussion tracks. On “Jigsaw Falling into Place,” Yorke sings, “What’s the use of instruments? / Words are a sawed-off shotgun.” There’s the usual amount of vocal retouching, but his spare lyrics are more point-blank then they have been in recent memory. They’re almost unfailingly ambiguous, yet they get deep beneath the skin—at least ours...
...envelope rode shotgun beside me for several miles until I opened it at a red light, using a tire-pressure gauge from the glove box, at which time my jaw, like my mailbox door, fell open in astonishment...
...section, now in its 20th year, championed prime work from Tsui Hark, the Hong Kong action master. The gaudily talented, impossibly prolific Takashi Miike got his start here and soon became a Madness regular. One of the highlights of TIFF 2007 is Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, a shotgun-vs.-sword sagebrush pastiche in which all the actors speak phonetic English - except for Quentin Tarantino, in a succulent cameo role...