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...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...
Administrators publicized a hotline for paycheck issues and formed a “SWAT team” of College, Faculty of Arts and Sciences and central administration officials who were dispatched to deal with individual cases...
...couldn't possibly have surprised anyone in 1927 that the Bambino, the Sultan of Swat, would sock a bunch of homers. Since joining the Yankees back in 1920 after his sensational trade from the Boston Red Sox, he had been averaging 44 a year--54 in that first year alone. In the process he changed baseball. His upward swing and the short right-field fence in Yankee Stadium--the House That Ruth Built, which opened in 1923--would lead the 1927 Yanks to the pennant. At the end of the season, on a 1-1 pitch against Washington...
Once complaints were registered, a “SWAT team” of both College and technical professionals attempted to deal with each individual situation, Touborg said...