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We’re v. happy we got more than a full dose of Sue this week, as we learned that she likes kicking children off her team at random, beef bone smoothies, and hovercrafts. We’re also enjoying the running joke about Will’s alleged perm, although we were shocked at Sue's violence toward a senior citizen. Also, we’re tickled that Sue was born in the Panama Canal Zone and still ran for office twice. Admirable...
...story focusing on the adults, but they’re just not as fun as the kids. And as usual, way too much happens in one episode, but at least this week it felt like the characters had a little room to breathe. Rachel, Quinn, and Ken all got fleshed out more sympathetically...
...that he is President, Obama is forced to defend massive deficits, a big-government stimulus, onerous financial regulations, a mess in Afghanistan. He's been increasingly reluctant to play the Bush card, the we-got-left-a-mess card, the things-would-be-a-lot-worse-if-we-hadn't-acted card. But it's a good card! And it's true. In foreign affairs, the U.S. doesn't need to be loved, but it is nice to be less hated for a change, and Republican leaders have attacked Obama for every deviation (however slight) from the Bush approach...
...bowl of bakso - a kind of Indonesian meatball soup - and visit the neighborhoods in Jakarta where he spent time as a young boy. Anticipation of visit from Obama after he attends an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Singapore in November was high until the Indonesian press got wind of his decision to reschedule the trip until sometime next year. "Many people will be disappointed but I think they understand that he has a lot on his plate back home," says Dennis Korompis, a local businessman and old family friend of the Obamas...
...Rebiya Kadeer, the Uighur leader who had been tipped for the prize "I am very happy that he got it. Now he has to do something with the award. It raises expectations on him to stand up for oppressed nations...