Word: edward
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...parallels were uncomfortable. Admiral William Adama (Edward James Olmos, a far cry from the cuddly Lorne Greene of the '70s BSG) unflinchingly overrides civilian rule when he sees fit for security; Roslin is not above ballot-box-stuffing to ensure she leads the quest for Earth. In Season 3, when humanity lived under an Iraq-like occupation by Cylons (hoping to reform rather than exterminate the survivors), characters turned to bombings and suicide attacks against Cylons and their human collaborators...
...best of the year? If I want to get depressed, all I have to do is watch CNBC. Seriously, we are in a deep recession, and the world is suffering. Please get out of those artsy theaters, visit the multiplex, have some popcorn and find us a funny movie. Edward Shute, GULPH MILLS...
...These guys were entirely rational. They are not wild-eyed shrieking wackos." -Edward Peck, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, after meeting with a group of Hamas leaders including Mashaal, whom Peck said was "moderate in many senses." Times of London, July...
...experience - victories and failures alike - grant each of us oodles of life lessons to pass on to that foolish, fresh-faced younger generation. Or so we think. Author Henry Alford embarked upon a journey to discover whether this is actually true, interviewing scores of people - some celebrities like playwright Edward Albee and literary greybeard Harold Bloom, others just plain ole old folks, such as the 75-year old Katrina survivor whose story brings the author to tears. Along the way, Alford's 79-year-old mother gets involved when she decides to divorce her husband and strike out anew...
...Tampa became known as "Cigar City" by the early 20th century. "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go," Mark Twain declared. Though the boom was partly lit by the cigar's affordability, they soon become a must-have accessory for debonair gentlemen - men like King Edward VII, who, upon assuming the British throne in 1901, famously announced a break with the smoke-free policies of his mother Queen Victoria by uttering the words: "Gentlemen, you may smoke." Ulysses S. Grant's cigar habit proved his undoing, saddling him with the throat cancer that killed...