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Aside from a few lucky actors and singers who seemed never to pick a lame role or make a bad album, it used to be expected that most entertainers, if they were lucky, would have a few good years before permanently dropping out of sight...
...failure to spell out any vision for the nation, prompting the joke that she is inarticulate in three languages. And experience has failed to make her a more inspired political player. At a rally last month in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, she resorted to the same lame vow?"The things that Indira and Rajiv believed in, I stand for them also"?as when she first assumed the Congress leadership. On the campaign trail she agrees to every supporter's request?fix the water, build a road, reopen someone's husband's factory?with a harried and unconvincing...
Settle back into that comfy futon or bizarre Harvard-issue desk chair on any given night and you’ll be confronted with a disgraceful array of lame, chauvinist reality television. Most intelligent people maintain a love-hate relationship with this peculiar programming, not totally convinced but not daring to look away—who knows, another frightful confirmation of a gender stereotype might lie after the next advertisement. You sit glued...
...Under those circumstances, efforts by the PA, Egypt and others interested parties to broker some form of truce may become that much more difficult. And that, in turn effectively ends any prospect in the immediate future for a peace process that requires Hamas sanction, leaving the PA as a lame duck and the Islamists ascendant in the street...
...this electronic space was last fall, when I embarked upon a mission to witness the epic Sox-Yanks playoff series from the stands, and write about the wild ride for Time.com. Some readers got a kick out of the ferociously biased account; some felt I was just another lame, pathetic loser. In any event, when I saw the kid in the Brady shirt and was reminded of our recent New England triumph on the gridiron, I jumped to the fact that pitchers and catchers were even now reporting to Florida and how the Sox look so very strong this season...