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...wrote. "If they can find the American equivalent of this comedy of quiet desperation, it'll be welcome on next year's list too." They did, and it is. Naysayers who complained that this version wasn't as dark as the British one, or that Steve Carell's boss wasn't as tragicomic as Ricky Gervais', missed the point. Producer Greg Daniels created not a copy but an interpretation that sends up distinctly American work conventions (the staff party at Chili's, the mandated diversity seminar), with a tone that's more satiric and less mordant. We Americans are different...
...money does not make a man a terrorist in a U.S. court of law. Handing the Justice Department one of its most embarrassing post-9/11 defeats, the jurors last week acquitted al-Arian, 47, on eight counts--including charges that he was Islamic Jihad's North America boss and conspired in terrorist murders--and deadlocked on nine others. Three co-defendants were also acquitted of 64 counts after a six-month trial in which the defense called no witnesses. "We didn't have to," says al-Arian attorney William Moffitt, "because we were convinced this was a First Amendment...
...Zarqawi's struggle," says a senior French counterterrorism official. "To our great distress, he's doing just fine without ever turning his attention from Iraq." As long as that's true, al-Zarqawi will be at the forefront of the war against the West that his old boss started...
...agenda, brainstorming not only within the White House but also with lobbyists, think-tank experts, lawmakers and former officials of both the Reagan and the George H.W. Bush administrations. Friends of Rove, however, say that he feels bruised by the leak probe and that his relationship with his boss has never fully recovered from the fact that early in the investigation, he underplayed his role as a source for the journalists who revealed CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. Says a Bush confidant: "The relationship is not bad, just changed...
...room (we used to clear out the furniture and play the soundtrack from Flashdance), I always played the girl. It seems that after years of being advised to feel for his cues, follow a squeeze, and stay light on my feet, I honestly can’t be a boss in a world of tiled floors, disco balls, and “Brown-Eyed Girl.” Part of me enjoys my dependence, his strong grip, the unplanned spin and sudden dip, rare twists for this normally type-A personality. But I also wonder if my complete inability...