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...hope is on the way! Also change--at least in the changing-channels sense. On top of the usual crush of midseason events (Fox's revamped American Idol) and cable debuts (Sci Fi's Battlestar Galactica), there's a rush of strike-delayed shows. If the TV waters of 2008 were becalmed, this month they've become a giant tsunami about to crash onto an island...
Jenna Fischer as Pam on The Office My (wife-approved) celebrity crush. Redefining adorableness...
...leaders of the radical Palestinian group see it. Their view is based more on a kind of jujitsu that uses Israel's military momentum against its own political objectives than on any serious belief in rhetoric about the organization's "steadfast" fighters being able to "crush" the invaders...
...Israel continues its air offensive against Hamas in the Gaza strip, one unsettling specter has emerged from the recent past: the failed campaign to crush the Lebanese militants of Hizballah in July 2006. Lebanon was clearly on the minds of Israel's military planners. Even as Hamas targets were pounded in Gaza, Israeli jets flew low-level saber-rattling sorties over southern Lebanon, a warning to militants not to launch reprisal attacks along Israel's volatile northern border. (See pictures from Israel's 2006 war in Lebanon...
...manufacturing regions of southern China are now a daily event, and local governments have stepped in to pay the wages of some workers left jobless after bosses have fled. Courts in the Guangdong province toy hub of Dongguan are reportedly working without days off to handle the crush of bankruptcies and unpaid wage cases. Demonstrations by terminated workers have spread fears of economic related social unrest, a key concern for the central government...