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...southern England's suburban landscape. Karen Reed, a 33-year-old geophysicist who analyzed seismic data for a living, was enjoying a glass of white wine with a friend when they heard a man's muffled voice through the window. "Have you ordered a pizza?" Karen opened the door - whereupon the pizza deliverer drew a 0.38 pistol and shot her several times in the head with calm deliberation. The killer then ran back to the car and drove...
...eventually comes across an older man, a retired soldier (Hal Holbrook in a lovely performance), who becomes the fully understanding surrogate father he has always sought. Eventually he attains the wilderness of his dreams, settles into an abandoned bus, and lives out the winter in increasingly desperate circumstances. Whereupon...
...Lozano says he went around to the other side of the car, opened the door and saw that Sgrena had been shot in the left shoulder. He says he picked her up and laid her down on the wet ground whereupon the medic tore her shirt open to find the wound and dress it. After a blanket was then wrapped around her, he says, "I picked her up and put her in the back of my Humvee to take her to the 'cash' [Combat Support Hospital]." Speeding down the road, radio calls were put out to indicate that Lozano...
...Amazing Race.” But will their egos even fit in those little packs? Some Porcellian newbies kidnapped two older members so they could chat with them (the club’s venerable rules prohibit members from talking to initiates while in Cambridge). They drove them to Connecticut...whereupon the crafty members promptly stole the kids’ keys and drove away. Harvard’s newest reality TV star is overwhelmed by the demands of fame—and broke up with his girlfriend. Pandemonium broke out in Hilles when all HUID swipers were mysteriously deactivated last weekend...
...recalcitrant Sunnis, would allow al-Maliki's government to succeed where the U.S. military had failed, in bringing to heel both the Sunni insurgency and the rising might of the Shi'ite militias. Never mind that the Prime Minister was himself a Shi'ite partisan until his nomination--whereupon he sought to reinvent himself as a nonsectarian leader--and that his party had stronger ties to Tehran than to Washington. An ornery figure, al-Maliki is a backroom politician plainly ill at ease in public; few Iraqis had even heard of him, and few are convinced that his rancorous...