UNIFIL's Indian contingent, for example, keeps 30 men on permanent alert at each of its three checkpoints, all for the sake of the two or three occasions a month when someone tries to take a gun through or drive past without stopping.

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"It's not appropriate within hours or days of reporting a rape to be telling someone how hard it is to take it through court, " she said.

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He pulls it off, in part because this apparently immortal series desperately needed someone to take a risk, and because Mendes' class really comes through in the performances.

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"We need someone of your stature who can take this thing by the throat and push it through, " Sprague said.

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"I want my team to focus on us carrying this through, not just doing a research flight and then waiting for someone to take it to the next step, " he said.

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