Word: appeareance
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...false values. In Step Brothers that world is represented by Brennan's brother Derek (Adam Scott), a preener and underminer whose sabotaging of a Brennan musical performance back in high school was our hero's defining trauma. Now Derek has a couple of kids so impeccable, they hardly appear in the movie, and a wife, Alice (Kathryn Hahn), whose cooped-up loathing of Derek propels her into the loins of a very surprised Dale. But Derek is just here as the villain, and Alice to wean Dale out of babyhood. The main thrust is to propel Brennan and Dale from...
...hope in every Olympiad is that the host city will learn that if it is eager to appear on the global screen, it must meet the minimal standards devised by the international community. "Olympism," as Boutros Boutros-Ghali said when he was head of the U.N., is a "school for democracy." That's one reason the Dalai Lama--head of the Tibetans, who are being oppressed (like Uighurs and Mongolians and millions of Han Chinese freethinkers) by the government in Beijing--consistently says that the world needs China and that this Olympics should go on, ushering the planet's largest...
Hamdan was not an obvious choice for this historic role. He didn't appear to be a high-ranking officer of al-Qaeda, nor was he known to have participated in any specific terrorist operations. But from America's perspective, he did have certain things going for him. Because the military-tribunal system was brand-new, the government thought it made sense to try some lower-ranking operatives first, in case anything went wrong. Hamdan had also been in U.S. custody since his capture and had not been rendered to any foreign countries for interrogation, which might open the door...
...very dirty things while planning a fund raiser. It's a lot like Sex and the City, if Carrie and Samantha got husbands and all the shoes they wanted and then got so bored that they tried to end the war in Iraq. And as ridiculous as that might appear, it's a lot more than I'm doing. Still, as inspired as I was to get politically involved, I was more inspired to make sure I never get divorced...
Faced with a growing epidemic of spray-painted graffiti on local walls and underpasses, the Los Angeles city council has been searching hard for ways to fight back against the unsightly scribbles. The legislators appear to be leaning toward an unusual solution: a 10 cents tax on every one of 12 million cans of spray paint sold in the city annually. Such a measure would provide as much as $1.2 million a year for cleanup efforts and education and prevention programs. Paint-industry officials, understandably upset at the idea, are lobbying against it. ''It's ridiculous to blame us simply...