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...known her for years. What first seemed like a clumsy way of adding someone to the cast turned out to be both a great spoof on how aging TV shows meddle with their casts and a deft exploration of identity, as Dawn - like many 14-year-olds before her - dealt with her discovery of her inner nature. Or take the starkly realistic handling of the death of Buffy and Dawn's mother, which happened suddenly and unfolded with a moving but unsentimental realism unknown to most so-called adult TV dramas...
...History warns that revolution lurks within these "contradictions," but history also reminds us how beleaguered regimes have traditionally dealt with the volcano inside. The classic prescription is to "busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels," as Shakespeare's Henry IV told his successor. It is hyper-nationalism and xenophobia that fuses regime and people, rich and poor, losers and winners in one Great National Whole. Jingoism is the traditional antidote against discontent and revolt, and the Chinese have been made to lap from this fount aplenty. Remember the week-long war of the aroused masses against the U.S. diplomatic compound...
...bumbling and his puppy-dog tears, and once Colby won the old-style Aussie-jailbreak Immunity Challenge by not dropping his lock in the grass, we had to hope it was him. (Rodger, interestingly enough for a 12-year bank president, retained absolutely none of the facts Probst dealt out in the challenge's setup, and basically stumbled around in the night scratching his beard and looking, well, looking like he really deserves to be called Kentucky...
Receptionist Janice Braxton dealt with bewildered delivery people and answered calls with a hurried "Good afternoon, Mass. Hall reception, how may I help you?," while a student practiced yoga on the floor in front of her. Across the hall in the conference room, students played Hearts and began digging into their peanut butter supplies. Students also napped in the hallway and did reading for class...
...Mark Thompson: Pretty good, for the most part. If you sit down and look at how the cards were dealt, there was no choice here. Obviously lower down the ranks there may be some grumbling from people saying there should have been a harder line or that the plane should have ditched. But they didn't have a kid on that plane. The top brass is happy they were able to bring the crew home in one piece...