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...pieces I ever wrote for the A.V. Club were reviews for the video section: Tromeo and Juliet, and Seconds by John Frankenheimer. Tromeo and Juliet was a good example of something that mashes up high culture and low culture in a deliberately provocative way, in that they implemented a fair amount of the actual Shakespeare and added a lot of sex with mutating cows. I think one of the reasons I started "My Year of Flops" was so that I could review Steven Soderbergh's remake of Solaris one week, and then write about The Real Cancun the next...
...think his overall role is considerably misunderstood," Ellsberg said. "Certainly he did have great influence on the bombing of North Vietnam, which was tragic and criminal...it's fair to say we were all participants in war crimes. I was a minor one, McNamara was a major one, as well as Johnson...
Ensign, Sen. John • God was repeatedly invoked in 2008 break-up letter to mistress from, after the writing of which said mistress was continually pursued by • God's response to is imagined by Vanity Fair writer Nell Scovell • parents of gave family of mistress of $96,000 - not, mind you, as any kind of hush money, but rather, according to statement by lawyer for, because the "gifts are consistent with a pattern of generosity by the Ensign family...
...invite the constructive criticism and those things that hold a public servant accountable, and I invite that. But the circumstances have changed, where we have seen this allowance of critics who lie, who stymie progress and who try to paralyze an administration. That hurts a state. That's not fair to the people of the state. And that's why I said circumstances - my choice is to react to the circumstances, maybe unconventionally, but wisely and fairly to Alaskans. (See the top 10 scandals...
...More in general, what did your previous time in the country teach you? Because I got to see a fair amount of the country and the focus on the gathering of the operations enabled by intelligence, it was the need to understand what was happening. The focus on not looking at the superficial or most obvious. It's the trying to get several layers down into what happened. Because as we would try to conduct operations in an area, the most obvious was usually the most incorrect. So you had to get down to what the motivation of somebody...