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...training was on police dramas of both the procedural—“Law and Order: SVU”—and the action??“The Shield”—oriented ends of the spectrum. The result is that he knows what he is doing and has found a cast of charismatic professionals who play reliably to type; no one is stretching their capabilities and it mostly works. Johnson even has a cameo as the murdered agent that starts the ball rolling...
...publications, reams of statistics and an unhealthy knowledge of the positional depth charts of all 16 National League franchises, we set about carefully assigning dollar values to every player in the N.L. based upon our projections of their 2006 performance. The goal was to develop an approximate plan of action??something along the lines of “spend twice as much money on hitting than pitching,” or “try to buy at least two closers”—for that fateful Sunday afternoon at the end of all the preparation...
When the Stones performed on the Ed Sullivan show in 1966, their rendition of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” was bowdlerized to suit a conservative broadcast audience who had no desire to hear about “girlie action?? over their TV dinners...
...join forces, even on an occasional basis, is all the more mystifying considering just how closely they work with other campus religious groups. The CSA interacts with other religious groups primarily through the Interfaith Council. Stein points to the group’s “Belief in Action?? event, where members of various religious groups work together on community service projects. Brewer named Harvard Hillel and the Harvard Islamic Society, among others, as the most involved participants in the Council, but admitted that “there isn’t quite as large a Christian participation?...
Still, it is unclear whether ethical consumerism is an effective means of reform. For it to be successful, it must take the form of collective action??while individual protest may do little to affect a corporation’s practices, an organized, widespread boycott can have a major impact, as shown by the public campaign that triggered Starbucks’ shift to “fair trade” coffee...