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Certainly 24, which debuted just weeks after 9/11 and returns Jan. 14, comes as close as anything has to being the Official Cultural Product of the War on Terrorism. Co-creator Joel Surnow is a rare Hollywood Republican, and John McCain has done a cameo. Dick Cheney is a big fan too, and you can understand the Administration's wanting to associate itself with Bauer's badass competence. (He nabs nuclear masterminds; we get Jose Padilla.) Most damningly to critics on the left, Bauer's means of gathering intel (grab terrorist's finger, snap, repeat) make 24 a weekly rationalization...
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...Center for Science and International Affairs until 2003. Since then she has been a resident scholar, teaching on subjects including homeland security and U.S. law. She has also served as co-chair of a KSG program that works with the Dubai School of Government. Kayyem will take office on Jan. 22, but she says she has no set agenda at the present time. “A large part of the job is going to be the steep learning curve; I need time to figure out exactly what my docket is going to be,” she said...
...community. In late December, musician Dinerral Shavers of the Hot 8 Brass Band was shot and killed while riding in a car; police later arrested a 17-year-old who was said to have been involved in a feud with Shavers' stepson. And in the early morning hours of Jan. 4, an intruder shot and killed filmmaker and social activist Helen Hill at her home not far from the French Quarter; Hill's husband Paul Gailiunas, a physician who helped establish a clinic for indigent patients, was injured in the attack and was found clutching the couple's two-year...
What happens when divas clash? In Bangladesh, it's chaos in the streets. On Thursday, the country's caretaker president called a state of emergency, imposed indefinite night curfews in cities and towns across the country and said he was indefinitely delaying elections scheduled for Jan. 22. This was after months of clashes between political activists who have fought each other and with police and soldiers, leaving at least 45 dead and hundreds injured. Who are the central figures in the crisis? Bangladesh's two political prima donnas...