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...This thug is a fast rewind to the old Soviet totalitarian regime (as in KGB) and has been and will continue to be a thorn in the side of the U.S. for years. Why would you choose him? Why not General David Petraeus, a genuine man and true hero? Keith Wrigley, Queensbury...
...something much bigger. The first season humanized the drug soldiers without condoning them--following them home, speaking their language and showing how they were used as cannon fodder. And it showed how cops who want to do painstaking police work are frustrated by bosses who prefer cheap, fast street busts that boost arrest statistics but simply move the crime around. Each season afterward focused on another dimension of Baltimore life (see chart)--the working class, the politics, the schools--pulling back like a camera on a crane to show a complex ecosystem, with dozens of interlinked characters...
...This attack could be taken as simply amusing if certain criticisms didn't hit home at times: our country has apparently descended into a kind of navel-gazing at a time when the world is changing very fast, and we're struggling to produce popular culture. So much solicitude is touching. But hang on: what about American culture seen from Paris? Brad Pitt, successor of Humphrey Bogart? Madonna, heiress of Billie Holiday? Edouard Launet, IN LIBÉRATION...
...severe than his record as governor, including a call to set a 120-day deadline for illegal aliens to register and leave the country. He has only given one major speech on foreign policy, and he lacks a foreign policy advisory committee, though the campaign says one is being fast assembled. You can still count his major advisors on a single hand; in addition to Rollins, they include his campaign manager Chip Saltsman, the Arkansas businessman French Hill and his policy director Janice Cherry...
...something the people who run the "egg" recognize. The National Grand Theater has launched a project entitled "Opening the Door to Art Education," consisting of a series of lectures on western classical music. "It will take time," Liu says, "Maybe China is developing a bit too fast," on the track to a sizzling economy and unheard of wealth. "Art is having a hard time keeping...