Word: cons
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...women" story. TV has had no shortage of female cops and young babes with superpowers (see NBC's Bionic Woman, this fall). Rather, TV has found women leads who are strong but also weak, like Dahlia Malloy (Minnie Driver) of FX's The Riches, a drug addict and ex-con (and current con artist). Or criminal but charming, like Mary-Louise Parker's pot-dealing widow in Showtime's suburban dramedy Weeds. Or sympathetic but scary, like Courteney Cox's rapacious gossip-magazine editor in FX's Dirt. Or dedicated but damaged, like Kyra Sedgwick's detective Brenda Johnson, beset...
There was no reason to believe that the incident was nothing more than "a failure of our infrastructure," the mayor said at a press conference about two and half hours after the explosion. "No terrorism... No criminality." According to Con Ed, the incident was caused by an operational problem in the area. Millions of pounds of steam course through pipes below New York City streets every hour, heating and cooling thousands of buildings. They can be prone to breakage: in 1989, a massive steam explosion that sent mud and refuse several stories high killed three people. Bloomberg said that...
They're not alone: Bravo, A&E, TLC and other channels have real-estate-oriented series, while HBO debuts the real estate satire 12 Miles of Bad Road next year. In FX's drama The Riches--about a con artist who moves to a gated community and passes himself off as a real estate lawyer--the buying and selling of land comes to stand for American dreams, appetites and origins. Creator Dmitry Lipkin says the pilot was shot in an exurb 40 minutes from New Orleans. "Everything around it was swampland," he recalls, "and in the middle...
...Iraq invasion, then Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz assured Congress that Iraqi oil would pay for the country's occupation and reconstruction. If my Iraqi oil traders are right, it's one more thing we need to add to the long list Wolfowitz and his neo-con friends in the Administration got wrong: oil is helping pay for Iraq' s destruction...
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg threw down the challenge after reviewing some of Joseph Smith's more extravagant assertions. "He was an obvious con man," Weisberg wrote. "Romney has every right to believe in con men, but I want to know if he does, and if so, I don't want him running the country." That argument, counters author and radio host Hugh Hewitt, amounts to unashamed bigotry and opens the door to any person of any faith who runs for office being called to account for the mysteries of personal belief. He has published A Mormon in the White House...