Standing alone outside the Constitutional Court in the biting January cold, she held a protest sign denouncing the judiciary.

When she was swimming back during the 1,000-yard swim, she felt a “biting sensation” on her right arm over and over again.

When other officers arrived and arrested Nodwell, he continued to be aggressive, assaulting one officer by spitting on his hand and biting another's boot.

“When the Going Was Good” is at its best when Carter is the underdog biting at ankles, or a Don Quixote who learns to tilt at the right windmills.

That leaves the Baltics nervously biting their nails.