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...Neal Davies and Heather Lowe scheme with lively purpose as Sergeant Meryll and his daughter, Phoebe....
...At 66, Washington is at the top of his game, having received eight Oscar nominations, winning two — Best Supporting Actor for 1989’s Glory and Best Actor for 2001’s Training Day....
...It’s a risky move for a writer who, from 2007’s There Are Little Kingdoms to last year’s Booker-longlisted novel Night Boat to Tangier, has built a fearsome reputation for quick, deadpan, darkly comic prose...
...The stricken man vomits copiously and a hapless copper is given the job of bagging the spew, overseen by detective sergeant Nick Bailey (Rafe Spall), who soon starts to feel iffy himself....
...Some people were complaining to the drill sergeants about it,” said a trainee at a military barracks....
...Instead, the prime minister’s flying visit this week highlighted his growing status as a recruiting sergeant for Scottish independence....
...“One per cent of the fund is a lot of dinero,” said Jason Perez, a police sergeant serving his first term on the Calpers Board of Administration....
...The man who brought both items, 45 minutes later, was Staff Sergeant James Atkins....
...News editors used to be the equivalent of sergeant majors. One, who became the dominant editor of our age, sent out his reporters to the cry: “Go, Paras. Go!”...
...When readers were introduced to Poohsticks halfway through the last of Milne’s four great children’s books, 1928’s The House at Pooh Corner, the denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood had already established...
...The paper’s conservative editorial page was one of the few to endorse Trump but its news stance is summed up by a photo on Imel’s desk of Dragnet’s Joe Friday, stamped with the 1950s TV sergeant’s misattributed...
...As for M&S, its “Simply Food” logo stands for what humans have become in this film. Meals. Products displaced from dominance and survival, they are now moving targets for the carnivore carnival....
...Isis can count on external powers to act as recruiting sergeants: Shia-backed regimes in Damascus, Baghdad and Beirut will keep Sunnis alienated. We will still be talking about Isis in 2018....
...It was the sort of shooting, Mr Williams says, that today might spark unrest: the type of violence that erupted in August after a black officer shot a black man close to where the sergeant lives....
...In the found-object homage “The Sergeant”, the contents of one fragile basket — helmet, hammer, nails, conkers, withered leaves — spill out: a hamper of death....
...Until 2014’s catastrophic Ebola outbreak, the country’s GDP was growing at an average of 8 per cent a year, and in 2011 Sirleaf was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize....
...It did pretty much as well as you might imagine; there would be no comeback until 2012’s The Hunt. Now, unsurprisingly, there are no more ice skates....
...“At TI1,” says Fear — referring to the first of Dota 2’s big-money competitions known as The International, a now annual event first held in 2011. “It had a $1.6m prize pool....
...In an off-the-record exchange that has since dribbled into the Washington press, Mr Obama summed up his foreign policy in just a few, pithy words: “Don’t do stupid s**t.”...
...The indefatigable Richard Suart is still at the top of his game in the Major-General’s patter, outshining Steven Page’s Pirate King and Graeme Broadbent’s Sergeant of Police. piratestheshow.com...
...It is important for most executives, and particularly for women, to learn how to deal with the layer(s) of management (mostly men) above them....
...Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder for killing Afghan civilians, according to two U.S. officials, Bloomberg reports....
...Afghanistan President Barack Obama said on Monday the massacre of 16 villagers by a US soldier increases his determination to get American troops out of Afghanistan, while a U.S. official said the accused staff sergeant...
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