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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...album’s opening track, “Get Me Right,” begins with a single, insistent guitar riff and then proceeds to build with electronic synths, gunshot drums, and Carrabba’s voice nervously fluttering above the ruckus as he pleads. “I know you’ll get me right / Oh Jesus, I’ve fallen.” The song’s religious overtones do not quite fit with the remainder of the adolescent-themed album, but thrown listeners will feel right at home as the record then effortlessly...

Author: By Zachary N. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dashboard Confessional | 11/13/2009 | See Source »

...China, Thailand, Guatemala and the Philippines, although the last two of these countries recently outlawed capital punishment. (Taiwan technically permits lethal-injection executions but has never killed anyone with the method.) China, which executes more people than any other nation by far, is phasing out death by gunshot in favor of lethal injection; the government provides mobile execution vans, which travel to smaller cities and towns that don't have permanent death chambers. While that morbid procession wouldn't fly in Virginia, the state clearly considers lethal injection the most humane option. When prisoners - like Muhammad - decline to specify whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lethal Injection | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

Carciero, who had lived Reading, Mass., died from multiple gunshot wounds at Mass. General Hospital later that...

Author: By Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Patient Stabs HMS Doctor | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...being familiar with shooting as a sport, FlyBy’s first reaction was…well, unease. (In fact, the first gunshot in this video, from the outing's Facebook event page, made us jump a little...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach | Title: What Happens When You Give a Harvard Student a Gun? | 10/20/2009 | See Source »

...version of Pride and Prejudice, with the role of a lifetime. No less than Lebanon, this is a film of man in extremis, seen in extreme close-up. Firth's professor, disconsolate over the death of his longtime beau in a car crash, meticulously rehearses his own suicide, by gunshot, but can't find a practical or aesthetically elegant way to carry it off. The Southern California setting casts an orange glow on Firth's handsome, mourning face, and lends A Single Man a delicate warmth that should touch all who see the picture. Firth may not have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venice Film Festival: Films with a Mission | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

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