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( Battles!
Now Stephanopoulos is cut off as Kristol battles for control.
Or this, as Inman battles the three thieves: "[H]e eventually smote the three down to their knees in the dirt of the street so they looked like those of the Romish faith at prayer."
The WP writes that it was the "bloodiest day of street battles since the fall of then-president Suharto last May."
In Punjab, the home province of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, more than 850 people have been shot by police since he came to power two years ago, according to a Punjabi paper, the News . The police explanation of these killings is often that the suspects died "in cross-fire" during street battles with criminal gangs, but Pakistani lawyers and human rights groups say the killings are deliberate and authorized by Sharif's government, the Guardian said.