Word: pulling
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...January 2005, Elmas Guzelyurtlu, a Turkish Cypriot businessman living near Nicosia in the southern part of Cyprus, was awoken by intruders. They took him, his wife[an error occurred while processing this directive] and 15-year-old daughter into a waiting car, drove them to a deserted highway pull-off, and shot them in the head. The murderers then fled across the "green line" that has divided Cyprus since 1974. For a moment, it seemed that justice might take its course. Turkish-Cypriot police, in the north of the island, arrested the occupants of an unregistered car matching the description...
...Larry Lindsey was fired in 2002 after telling papers that the Iraq war could cost $200 billion; Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki was publicly chastised for not backing up White House estimates on troop levels. But Snow's ad-libbing is tolerated, even encouraged. How does he pull it off? It's not just that he is as quick to retract and apologize as he is to--as he has said--"step in it." It's also because the Snow Show, Administration officials believe, is paying off. "He's not the sort of person who's going...
...know in the one case with the Handelsman cartoon, I had seen that before, so I support The Crimson’s decision to pull the cartoon,” Breeden said in an interview yesterday. Both Breeden’s Oct. 25 cartoon and Handelsman’s cartoon depict President Bush and a democratic donkey standing side by side...
...there are so few upperclassmen.” And with a bench so sparse, much was expected from this group of youngsters. “It was unfortunate to have to ask so much out of the freshmen,” Odorczyk said. “Asking them to pull wins out for us in games, upperclassmen should have done that.” To add insult to injury, or rather, injury to insult, the Crimson also did not have the good fortune of staying healthy. Playing against Penn State early in the season, freshman Devon Sherman, who had been...
...There Any Hope of Defeating Arnold? Democrat Phil Angelides is way behind the California governor. Here are four keys to how he could (but probably won't) pull off a last-minute surprise