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...After a period of play characterized by what Donato calls "Hudson Bay rules," Dell seems to crack down on a relatively minor infraction. Watters gets two minutes for roughing, and Cornell is back on the power play...
...Breaking Bad,” the story of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking crystal meth after being diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. “Breaking Bad” is quite literally “Weeds” on crack. As if the cancer plot isn’t enough, White also has a pregnant wife, a son with cerebral palsy, and a DEA-agent brother-in-law. Not even “Weeds” managed to get to those storylines until its second season.Naturally, a premise this loopy calls for a stronger...
...more controversial elements of the show. He expressed incredulity at the Archbishop of Canterbury’s assertion that “The Simpsons” is “the most Christian show on television.”“The Archbishop of Canterbury smokes crack,” he said. “Has he seen our show? We had an episode where Homer was sodomized by a panda.”Although the writers have generally been able to air whatever they wished, the response from audiences has not always been positive...
...Lucey says, this means assessing the cost of the damage and providing monetary compensation.Annis says that Harvard did take photographs of his home before and after the Cowperthwaite construction. However, he says the team sent to assess post-construction damage ignored his tenants’ requests to photograph a crack that had appeared in one of his walls during construction. While Harvard did pay to repair a window and pipe that broke as the house settled, he says, they made no such offer for the crack.Annis says he received a letter on February 26 from Lucey asking that Annis?...
...with the levers and dials of government, knowing how to cajole the Congress, understanding when to rely on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and when to call on the National Security Council - that sort of thing. But bear down even slightly, and the notion of experience is liable to crack and run all over. If knowing the system is so useful, then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term. Instead, many Presidents lose effectiveness as they go along. Lyndon Johnson, for example: his experience as a master legislator no doubt helped as he steered his historic civil...