Word: ledgers
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Walking a reporter through what he believes to be the situation on the ground, Kagan unrolled two maps of greater Baghdad and delivered a before-and-after briefing on the surge. On the positive side of the ledger, Kagan said he saw three developments since the roughly 30,000 additional troops went into position in and around the Iraqi capital...
...highly anticipated--and ultimately ambiguous-- finale of The Sopranos piqued so many fans that their furious commenting crashed HBO's website. But series creator David Chase told N.J.'s STAR-LEDGER that the ending was clear: "I have no interest in explaining, defending, reinterpreting or adding to what is there. Anybody who wants to watch it, it's all there." SCORE...
...young mother enters the shop cradling a baby in a lace bonnet. Omar cuts her a hunk of meat from a carcass hanging in the window, then writes down her name in a ledger. "These are the people who can't pay me. See? Many pages. Thousands of shekels. But how can I refuse them?" he asks. The woman leaves, and the shop is empty save for a few flies stirred in the air by a ceiling...
...more home runs and gets to 500 for his career, count him in. Only steroid whispers can keep Sosa out of the Hall. Even Fred Claire, ex-GM of the Los Angeles Dodgers and a career anti-DH National Leaguer, admits that "on the plus side of the ledger, the DH lets guys that have been great players continue to have a role. That's good for the game." And these guys aren't sad, creaky sluggers desperate to hang on. Sosa tore up spring training, Thomas hit 39 homers in '06, and Piazza belted 22 dingers while catching with...
...fidelity to the war and cop genres in this first scene, when Swagger's spotter, a nice kid, mentions he can't wait to see his girlfriend back home and is promptly killed. That information also gives Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee, which he calls "the patron state of shootin' stuff." (The always authoritative Levon Helm has an excellent cameo here as a Yoda of gun lore.) His other helper is a rookie FBI agent (World Trade...