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Malcolm Lee's The Best Man featured a turn by Terrence Howard that should've propelled him into movie-star orbit.
Agents propelled him out of his chair and told him he had to get to the bunker.
The Independent of London reported allegations Thursday that the Russian apartment-block bombings that ignited the latest war in Chechnya and propelled Vladimir Putin into the presidency were the work not of Islamic terrorists, as claimed by Moscow, but of the Russian special services.
This propelled me into the public domain and made me, of course, a Lawgiver and a Legend.
Elena McMahon has been propelled into a demimonde where, as the narrator puts it in a knowing pastiche of official jargon, those "trying to create a context for democracy" are "maybe getting [their] hands a little dirty in the process or just opting out, letting the other guy call it."