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...There are three new dramas. Fathom is the most unusual, a sci-fi mystery about a bizarre life form that suddenly appears in the oceans. It's Lost, with fish. (From the press release: "Ever wonder what life would be like if a new form of sea life began to appear in locales all over the earth?" Yes! All the time!) Inconceivable, a comic-edged drama about a fertility clinic, looks like it was conceived through an egg donation from Grey's Anatomy. And in E-Ring, Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI) gives us a drama in the Pentagon, for your retired...
This spring's second insult to freedom-loving cowboy types was graver yet, although its implications might be hard to fathom for non-Montanans. The state's drivers, as of October, will not be allowed to drink alcohol in their vehicles. Outsiders may find this development astonishing. Drinking and driving was legal in Montana? Yes. And not only legal but rather popular. In a state that measures more than 700 miles from its southeast to northwest corners and where most of those miles consist of empty highway enlivened only by blowing tumbleweeds and the occasional bloated mule-deer corpse...
Turner has had a flamboyant lifestyle, and his true character is difficult to fathom. He can put on the charm or turn rude and overbearing. The father of five, including a son named Rhett, he preaches family values yet is celebrated in Alanta as one who does not always practice them. He works obsessively but just as easily becomes a raucous, tobacco-chewing, beer-swigging good ole boy. A yachtsman who defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle...
...Shot Seen Round The World" [Nov. 29], about the videotape of a Marine apparently killing a wounded Iraqi in a Fallujah mosque: It's amazing that we don't hear more stories like that. I hold no ill will toward the Marine, because I cannot begin to fathom what he and others endure in Iraq every day-car bombs, roadside rockets, booby-trapped bodies and Iraqi civilians who act like your friend one day and shoot at you the next. To all the armchair generals who criticize what happened at the mosque, I say grab a gun and try living...
...drunkenly speedwalking toward a campus party. Rumor has it there’s a little shindig in Quincy—or is it the Mather lowrise? The Belltower perhaps? Either way, we hope that we’ve pre-gamed a sufficient amount to fathom what awaits...