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...four all-too-brief seasons (30 episodes in all), Bob Odenkirk, below left, and David Cross were the Wright brothers of experimental TV comedy, and Mr. Show was their Kitty Hawk. The loosely themed episodes run the end of one skit into the beginning of the next, sparking provocative ideas off one another like a chain-smoker's cigarettes. Taking full advantage of its HBO-ensured freedom, the episodes are hilarious and offensive on numerous levels. One includes an ad for Mr. Pickles' Fun-Time Abortion Clinics ("We'll Bring Out the Kid in Ya!"), while in another, Mr. Show...
...REOPENED. Nathu Pass, on the border between Tibet and the Indian state of Sikkim; in the Tibetan county of Yadong. The Himalayan pass, part of the ancient Silk Road trading route linking Europe and Asia, was closed in 1962 following a brief border war between India and China. While not commercially significant?the primary goods traded across the 4,500-m-high frontier will be farm tools, livestock and rice?the historic opening symbolizes the thawing relations between the world's two most populous countries, between which two-way trade grew 37% last year to nearly $19 billion...
...enthusiastic welcome he received in Valencia. Not even a tragic accident in the city's subway system last week dampened the raucous crowds in the streets and public squares. Papal supporters reportedly booed and whistled at Zapatero as he entered the Valencia archbishop's residence for the brief meeting with Benedict. Inside, there were uneasy smiles and rigid body language. The customary exchange of gifts was also telling, with Zapatero giving the pontiff a modern abstract painting and Benedict handing the Spanish leader a copy of the Vatican codex. (Not very likely that the art work will get be hung...
...fundamental retooling. I have not ascended from pathetically low â€high school†level of intellect to the “college†one. No, I feel different from the rowers simply because I have been around for a bit longer and, in that brief period of time, have packed more than my share of failures, mistakes, and shortcomings...
...economy. And you're supposed to be a functioning democracy too. So when Vladimir Putin opens this year's G-8 summit next weekend at the sumptuous Palace of Congresses overlooking the sea 15 km from St. Petersburg, the famously stone-faced Russian President can be forgiven a brief flicker of a smile. The former kgb officer in East Germany will be in charge of a gathering to which, by any objective measure, he should not have been invited. Even now a small army of diplomats is buttoning up the communiqués that will record a bland consensus...