Word: jacked
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...Just like how on the show 24 Jack Bauer drives some brand of car that's not paying me and on American Idol the judges drink some kind of soda that's not paying me, last summer the anchors at the Fox News affiliates in New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas and Seattle put cups of iced coffee from a fast-food place that's not paying me on their desks. This upset lots of people because they thought it compromised the objectivity of their local anchors. This marked the first time anyone has thought about the credibility...
...nation of Gilboa, led by King Silas Benjamin (Ian McShane) - based on the Bible's Saul - has been at war for generations, most recently with neighboring Gath. His son Jack (Sebastian Stan) is taken hostage at the front but is rescued by David Shepherd (Chris Egan), who destroys a supposedly invincible Gath tank - a "Goliath," natch - by slinging a grenade duct-taped to a wrench. David is called to court in the gleaming new capital, Shiloh, where the cunning Silas parades him as a hero and eyes him as a potential rival...
...overlook these faults - and Kings' taste for melodramatic cheese, slathered with an overheated operatic score - when McShane is onstage. But Egan's David is an upstanding stiff, and when Egan gets a McShanian monologue at the end of the two-hour pilot, he sounds ridiculous. The subplots involving Jack and Gilboa's gilded nightlife play like a bad marriage of The Tudors and Gossip Girl...
...around anymore to argue. Next week will see the release of a previously unpublished story by Mark Twain, almost a century dead; it will be followed by next month's Who is Mark Twain, a collection of 24 formerly unseen essays and short stories. Long-lost novels by Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace and Vladimir Nabokov are scheduled to see the light of day in coming years...
...Jack W. Szostak, a genetics researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School professor who has been investigating the origins of life, acknowledged yesterday the significance of Church’s discovery...