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...small-screen nostalgiacs, I'll add a final blast of trivia. These two shows had ancestors in TV's Stone Age. Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts was a competition of little-known singers getting the fragrance of national publicity (Patsy Cline was a contestant who became a star after appearing there). And Arthur Murray's Dance Party showcased the terpsichoreal skills of the dour impresario, his wife Katherine and a host of graceful semi-pros. From the talents displayed way back then came not only American Idol and Dancing With the Stars but their movie siblings, High School Musical...
...tensions has contributed to a deep uncertainty about which Iraqis the U.S. can trust - even in what was once the safest place in Baghdad. Sitting at a heavy oak desk in the Ministry of Defense, a senior Iraqi general concedes that his own troops, who guard the maze of blast walls leading into this corner of the Amber Zone, have questionable loyalties. The troops, he says, are underequipped, "not well trained, not professional," and "can be loyal to a political party" - rather than to the U.S.-backed national army they belong to. If such sectarian tendencies aren?t curbed soon...
Wilson delivered the crowning blow in the seventh, overwhelming the Big Red and pitcher Jim Hyland with a three-run blast. The home run put Harvard up for good and concluded the team’s day-long, two-game offensive romp...
...turn navigator, Alpine included a rudimentary MP3 player. Take any old SD card (sold separately), fill it with MP3s or WMA files, including protected files you download from Yahoo! and other online stores, pop it into the card slot and the music player inside will find it all and blast it through your FM stations. People who use FM transmitters for their iPods will be sad to hear that there is no iPod jack, or even a simple auxiliary input jack, on the Blackbird. Fortunately, Alpine's Steve Witt tells me that the company is "studying that implementation right...
...Vendetta” are a sign of England’s and America’s historical privilege, and our distant removal from any lived totalitarian experience. Images of real totalitarian systems—people forced to eat their own feces, people thrown into blast-furnaces, people eaten alive by rats—these are, of course, not acceptable to our pampered senses: they would make most of us sick to our stomachs. Accustomed to rational governance, we cannot imagine what an irrational system would look and sound like. The dictatorship in “V for Vendetta...