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...number-one domestic priority, encouraged by the irresponsible cries of “death panels” from once-respectable public servants like Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and the populist anti-rhetoric of Sarah Palin, which veers daily into demagoguery. The 24-hour misinformation spread by Fox News has also been responsible for stoking Americans’ latent anti-government tendencies...
...it’s not because we love Sigur Rós (though who doesn’t like that DVD of the Icelandic pastoral paradise?), nor is it because we adore Iceland’s lovely arctic fox. Our newfound love of Iceland is due to the protection that this volcanic island country may soon be offering people like us—you know, journalists...
...editorial board panned Reid's substitute bill as "pathetic" and "so puny as to be meaningless." Governors and mayors who were hoping for more money to ease their strained budgets were disappointed - even the Democratic ones. "It's a shock to us," Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Democrat, told Fox News on Friday. "I mean, in the states we were all hoping to see a robust jobs bill, and we're confounded by this action, absolutely confounded." And fellow endangered incumbent, Senator Blanche Lincoln, an Arkansas Democrat, said in a press release that she hopes Reid "will reconsider. [The Baucus...
From the Pakistani army barracks to the roadside chai stands along the Indus River where truckers gulp down cups of muddy tea, anti-Americanism is roiling across the country. It is whipped up by the often sensationalist, ratings-hungry Pakistani TV news talk shows - think of Fox News cranked up to full volume, in Urdu. It resounds from the mosques, in virulent anti-U.S. sermons during Friday prayers. But most ominously, according to Islamabad observers, this deep suspicion of America's intentions in the region seems to be shared by elements within Pakistan's powerful military and intelligence services...
...Khan's ability to generate such empathy led to critical praise and also won the attention of Fox Searchlight Pictures, which co-distributed Slumdog Millionaire. Director Boyle says that Khan's part was crucial. Khan plays the inspector who interrogates Jamal, a young man from the slums of Mumbai, suspecting him of cheating to win a televised quiz show. Everything else in the movie is a flashback, so the suspense hinges on whether the interrogator will release Jamal or keep him in custody. Khan's way of inhabiting the character is consummate and ineffable - as economical and meticulous...