Sprint, crouch in cover, poke out, scan for keffiyehs, turbans, take a bullet, return a few, crouch back, move up, cutscene.

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This lady can take a bullet, dodge smoke monsters, sleep on the ground and manage competing male egos (think Jack and Sawyer), but gets passed over for being a parent?

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What seems more than a bit disingenuous is to take a bullet point in a preamble, and make it seem that this was the main thrust of something that Michele Bachmann signed, when it reality, what she signed was a vow to defend the traditional notions of marriage and family in both the public and private sphere.

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Today President Barroso said "there is no magic bullet... (a solution) will take time and sustained efforts".

BBC: Europe's days of anxiety

There were tears in the foyer as hotel staff queued up to take pictures of the press corps - then sent a couple of brave porters on to the bullet train platform to pursue us out of the station waving the flag of St George.

BBC: World Cup memory lane

The fact that we dodged a bullet during the global financial crisis has in some ways led the community to take a while to understand we're not immune.

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It dodged a bullet because a Romney victory would have obscured deeper trends in American politics the GOP must take into account.

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