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...your country to war when it doesn't really want to go? You could subcontract with another nation, fight on the sly and hope no one notices. But if you need a lot of troops to prevail and you would like to remind everyone in the neighborhood who's boss anyway, then what you need most is a good reason--something to stir up the folks back home...
...crime writer or social dramatist, Simon is a poet of beautiful losers. He has an unfailing ear for dialogue (getting a hard-to-solve case is "catching a stone whodunit"), and he's abetted by the subtle performances of regulars like Sonja Sohn and Wendell Pierce. Even crooked union boss Frank Sobotka (Chris Bauer) is more pitiable than loathsome--he's a dinosaur and knows it--and his underlings are the blue-collar counterpart to last season's no-hope drug soldiers, who are on the scene this year too. If The Wire depicts a war on crime...
More often, Chessen is dealing with simple embarrassment. Like the business owner who could not face what he had done to his computer and got his secretary to make the call. Trouble was, she could not describe the problem. Finally, Chessen got the boss on the phone and teased out the truth: in a moment of frustration, he had pulled out a gun and shot the central processing unit...
Although Illingworth did not say that Lewis' departure had led to his own, the two are good friends, and many members of Lewis' staff have expressed unhappiness with the sudden firing of their boss...
...graduated from the school in 1986, and is now preparing to became the boss of her former teachers, including Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe...