Word: swats
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...with 20 seconds, 24 seconds, and 3 seconds left, respectively. Talk about a flair for the dramatic. It’s as if the victory puck is forever tucked somewhere in the guy’s pants, and all he has to do is flip it onto the ice, swat it in, and watch everyone go berserk...
When Fiona Sigalla crossed back into the U.S. from Canada a few days after Christmas, she expected the usual questions about firearms--routine in these times of terrorist threats. But the border cop in his bulletproof SWAT uniform took one look inside her car and immediately seized the contraband held by Sigalla's 8-year-old daughter: her lunch leftovers. "He looked slightly embarrassed, but he confiscated my McDonald's trash," Sigalla says with a chuckle. "Of course, you notice that I wasn't afraid to purchase a McDonald's hamburger, even in Canada...
...said she personally favors the activism of the late 1980s, citing the discrimination complaint filed by Lisa J. Schkolnick ’88 against the Fly Club and the formation of Stop Withholding Access Today (SWAT), an organization that pressured the final clubs to let women join...
...anyone understands the benefits of action--and the price of inaction--it's Eric Weaver. A sergeant in the Rochester, N.Y., police department, Weaver, 40, moves in circles that are particularly intolerant of weakness. He's a tough cop. He participated in body-building shows, volunteered for SWAT team duty and was a role model for the other officers. That's why it came as a surprise to his wife and three daughters when he finally revealed that he could barely recall a day when he hadn't contemplated suicide. "I'd exhibit confidence, arrogance and self-esteem," he says...
...glower is eloquent. Besides, notes Loken, 23, "I don't think many women can say they got to beat up Arnold." Michelle Rodriguez, who turns 25 on July 12, is a valued member of the team in S.W.A.T. (a fiction, since there are as yet no real-life SWAT women in Los Angeles, where the film is set). "I like the idea of being powerful," she says of her role. "Plus I get to play with guns. But I don't have many action scenes. I let the guys shoot and kill everybody...