Word: ets
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...strange to see the "third" season (HBO, debuts March 4, 9 p.m. ET) opening like the second one did. Not figuratively - literally. Just like last year, we see Tony, dressed in his bathrobe, lumbering down his driveway to get the morning paper. The news is about him: a bloody turf war over the Mafia-run garbage-trucking business. The garbage war, we discover, is the new target of the long-running FBI investigation against him, and the Feds spend the taut first episode trying to plant a bug in Tony's basement - the one place in his house where...
...these, Bush came prepared. He took the microphone at 9:10 p.m. ET, opened with that bit of self-deprecation that is his political bread and butter, and surprised some more pundits by going right at his predecessor's jugular...
...Saddam et al.: Murkowski himself prefers to talk about "unstable nations" like Iran and Iraq, and the possibility of the U.S. being held hostage by Middle East malcontents. (The United States imports 750,000 barrels of oil a day from Iraq, a country which it frequently bombs...
...eternity now, it seems, people have counted on various and sundry external forces to bring us closer together as a species. Love, tolerance, peace, understanding, et cetera, et cetera. And now, after years of all that new-agey stuff, it turns out that all we needed was a bunch of research scientists and some pipettes...
...usual course of politics takes over: Card will suffer briefly for his "misunderstanding," while Bush et al. skirt any real trouble. In fact, the President probably owes thanks to Card, who, apart from his apparent willingness to fall on his sword, has, perhaps inadvertently, shown the administration the path to take on these two controversial topics - and that similarly touchy issues should be subject to more of a look-before-you-leap examination in the future...