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Cornell gained just 51 yards on the ground, less than half the total produced by Gordon alone...
...Office's quasi spin-off Parks and Recreation applies the same technique to politics, with Amy Poehler playing an overzealous Indiana bureaucrat seeking to build a park on an abandoned development site occupied by a giant pit. (Throwing stimulus money into a literal hole in the ground left behind by the real estate bust: it's the official sitcom of the Great Recession.) And Modern Family, a hilarious new mock-doc on ABC, adapts the style to domestic comedy. When one half of a gay couple blames his weight gain on a nesting instinct spurred by their adoption...
...record highs after the Australian announcement, ending the week at $1,049. Gold is still regarded as a hedge against a weak dollar and also against inflation. No one is listening to Warren Buffett, who describes the metal as having no utility, something that gets dug out of the ground, melted down and then buried again in another hole guarded by people who are paid to do the job. "Anyone watching from Mars," says the Sage of Omaha, "would be scratching their head...
...third major attack in Pakistan this week, adding fresh urgency to the Pakistan army's plan to mount a much anticipated ground offensive in the Taliban's mountainous base in South Waziristan, along the Afghan border. Earlier this week, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing of the Islamabad office of the World Food Program (WFP), which killed five people. The militant group is also believed to be behind a devastating suicide bombing in a Peshawar marketplace on Friday that killed 49 people. With Saturday's attack, the government has been left with "no other option...
Still, the Mehsud network and its deadly allies remain a major threat to Pakistan's stability. In perhaps its toughest challenge yet, the Pakistan army is gearing up, after much reluctance, for a ground offensive in South Waziristan to target what remains of Baitullah Mehsud's group, more than 5,000 well-armed central Asian fighters known for their brutality, and Arab fighters belonging to al-Qaeda. From their eastern patch of South Waziristan, the militants have authored close to 250 suicide attacks across Pakistan in the last 2½ years and trained other militants who have spread the Pakistani...