Word: darkeness
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There's a dark sense of humor at work when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agrees, at the prodding of the Bush Administration, to release to President Mahmoud Abbas $100 million of the Palestinian Authority funds it has frozen - and Abbas's aides then tell the New York Times that the money will be used "to strengthen his Fatah movement and pay salaries to Fatah loyalists." Clearly, the U.S. and Israel have come full circle on the question of Palestinian governance: Now that Yasser Arafat is gone, they appear to be reinventing...
...sons of Wasp privilege are just lost little lambs. But since some of them spent their postgraduate years founding the CIA, Robert De Niro's finely tuned film wonders if their arrogant sense of entitlement subverted this nation's best, most idealistic impulses. Good question, good movie: very dark, very well written and acted--and very, very worrying...
...make chocolate? You take dark chocolate, you mix it with white milk, and it becomes a delicious drink...
Call it an underdog, a dark horse, a seventh-round draft pick--just don't ignore the fall's best new series (based on the book and movie) any longer. This high school football drama is a moving, warts-and-all portrait of life in hard-up Dillon, Texas, nailing the fine points of small-town politics and faith that TV too often romanticizes or ignores. It's a poignant picture of what a championship team means to a town that can't afford to wait till next year...
...conversations with her friends, Diana said she was coming home to England to see her children. "None of them has indicated to us that she was either about to or wished to get engaged. Her last conversations with friends and confidantes were to the contrary." So even if dark forces were bugging her phone, and the British establishment or the Queen or Prince Philip or the head of MI6 were horrified at the prospect of a non-white, Muslim half-brother to the future King of England, they would have had no impetus at that stage to put a murder...