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...doctor described a motor vehicle accident after which a victim with multiple broken bones and a ruptured aorta was taken to a public hospital 30 miles away because she did not have any insurance. "This kind of case is not uncommon in the U.S," he said...
...actions of police and prosecutors helped weight the trial with symbolism. The uncommon spectacle of Williams being arrested at home, in front of TV cameras, by no less a figure than then police chief Daryl Gates, strengthened the case of those who said the accused were being made scapegoats for the entire riot. When Williams and Watson, along with co-defendants Antoine Miller and Gary Williams, were booked on high bail -- $580,000 for Williams alone -- it added power to that argument. For the jury, signals from outside the court may have been too much, compelling them...
...holes that can have very large swings," he says. "The seventeenth is a reachable par-five that can be eagled, and eighteen is just a short par-four. But the greens have very severe slopes, so while they are both birdie holes, three-putts from five feet aren't uncommon...
...Good Son, the director taps yet another nasty, not entirely uncommon fantasy. What if a child's normal mischievousness -- a compound of forgivable prankishness, a bit of secretiveness, some expectable sibling rivalry -- is not just a boyish phase? What if it is actually the first sprouting of a very bad seed? Meet Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin). Who would believe that polite, sweet-smiling Henry is actually the devil's spawn? Not his doting parents, who are still grieving over the presumably accidental death of his younger brother. Not his visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), who is also in mourning...
...guns," he says. "It's not uncommon to have a tour guide who carries...