The former officer was convicted last year of holding Mr Louima down while his colleague, Volpe, sodomised him with the broom handle.

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When the employees were unable to open the cages, the two robbers locked the employees in a bathroom and forced open the cages with a broom handle.

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Dan Holman, who follows Mrs Clinton around waving a gruesome anti-abortion banner, was allegedly poked in the ribs with a broom handle by an elderly householder who accused him of standing on his property.

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As the blue laser sweeps the bottom of the slide, the optical threads in the broom underneath suck in the blips from the fluorescent cancer cells and shoot them through the other end of the broom handle and into the lenses.

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In Bottineau, North Dakota, partners Ronald Bergman and Paul Sund scoured trade magazines, joined a trade association and wrote out a list of potential customers and key decision-makers who might handle their invention -- a power broom to deal with snow, leaves and dirt.

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