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...after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. “Breaking Bad” is quite literally “Weeds” on crack. As if the cancer plot isn’t enough, White also has a pregnant wife, a son with cerebral palsy, and a DEA-agent brother-in-law. Not even “Weeds” managed to get to those storylines until its second season.Naturally, a premise this loopy calls for a stronger-than-average lead actor, and “Breaking Bad” has a great one in Bryan Cranston. Best known...
...Pyongyang. Immediately after the concert, he had seemed prescient. But momentous things sometimes last just a moment. This is still North Korea we're talking about. Kim Jong Il has run the place now for nearly 14 years. He has not, to date, shown himself to be an agent of change. He still runs a rogue regime, suspected recently of aiding Syria in building what Israeli intelligence believes to have been a nuclear-weapons facility before the Israelis destroyed it with air strikes last year. It exports narcotics, has been accused of counterfeiting $100 bills, hasn't come clean about...
...dark glasses and the sax are distant memories - after all, most were in grade school when Clinton did his Blues Brothers schtick back in the 20th century. Now he takes to the stage to deliver campaign appeals that begin as a pitch for his wife as real "change agent" and end in a mix of wonkish detail and spin on the inner workings of Washington and his observations from his world travels...
...list follows: She supported Senegalese women victimized by genital multilation; she inspired Cambodian women to work for education for their daughters; she worked on health care programs for poor American kids; registered voters in dusty Texas towns; toiled for peace in Ireland... "All her life she has been an agent for change," Clinton says...
...ALERT / IDIOCY ADVISORY: You're a terrorist who's just pulled off an assassination plot that killed dozens of high-ranking U.S. officials and a few hundred innocent bystanders. Now you're tearing through town in your getaway van with precious cargo in the back and a Secret Service agent on your tail. Would you hit the car breaks and risk being caught just to avoid running into a little girl on the highway...