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...Passion of the Christ was $370 million domestic gross' worth of polarizing. And religion--specific, fraught, inflaming religion--can make for involving stories. In March HBO debuts Big Love, about fundamentalist polygamists in Utah. Devout Christian characters have shown up in ensembles from TNT's Wanted to CBS's Threshold. On FX's Rescue Me, Denis Leary's self-destructive firefighter has recurrent talks with--Zeitgeist alert!--Jesus. "I don't know who his agent is," says Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan, "but he's cleaning up this year...
...Watch This Show or We'll Shoot This Kid. Finally, speaking of cradles and violence, TV's crime-procedural addiction continued unabated, this year upping the ante with ghastly, manipulative stories of crime against children, on shows from TNT's Wanted (child rape) to CBS's suburban crime drama Close to Home (abuse, imprisonment, etc.). Baby New Year, watch your back...
...Bush also revisited an April 2004 question from John Dickerson, then of TIME magazine and now of Slate.com, who had asked what his biggest mistake had been since 9/11, and what he had learned from it. This time, it was John Roberts of CBS News doing the asking. Bush replied cheekily: "Answering Dickerson's question. No, I-the last time those questions were asked, I really felt like it was an attempt for me to say it was a mistake to go into Iraq. And it wasn't a mistake to go into Iraq. It was the right decision...
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...Islamic Studies Program would be a wonderful addition to the University, the funding for it should not come from a source of extremist hate,” Amy M. Zelcer ’07, president of Harvard Students for Israel, wrote in an e-mail. She cited a 2002 CBS Marketwatch article that said the Saudi Prince donated $27 million and 100 four wheel drive vehicles to families of Palestinian suicide bombers. “It seems like this money has Jewish blood on it,” she said, referencing the article. She added that for a bridge between...