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...might assume that 30 Rock, the sitcom, is the more lightweight show. But Fey began comedy writing with Chicago's Second City troupe, where, she says, "your starting place was always current events and social issues." Her hit movie Mean Girls was a mainstream feminist entertainment that was steeped in ideas but not overwhelmed by them. And 30 Rock is at heart about the race-class-gender triangle among its three leads: Liz, a talented but headstrong woman; Jack, a conservative suit who's not as dumb as Liz wishes he were; and Tracy, a loony--but cannily so--black...
...Labour MP why Blair's in trouble, the first answer isn't Baghdad but Brown - Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The two men have been allies and rivals for two decades. Brown's overwhelming ambition for the top job and contempt for Blair as an intellectual lightweight have been held in check only by his conviction, born of Labour's agonies in the 1980s, that inheriting a disunited party would mean electoral self-immolation. To get Brown's full-throated support during the 2005 election, Blair was forced to promise to quit before the next one - something...
...Pushed beyond their usual performance tics, Scacchi, Friels, Mailman and Long are virtually unrecognizable. They not only get under the skin and muscle of their characters-none more so than the previously lightweight Long-but reveal the fragile sinew connecting body to soul. And in a film so obsessed with attempts to control the human form's direction and desire, it is the mind that emerges the strongest muscle of all. Can there be such a thing as a cerebral cinematic dance? Yes, when the choreographer is as clever as Kokkinos in turning prose poetry into the magisterial mystery...
...innovation consultancy and research institute, has his doubts. Segways, he notes, are competing with established products, like electric golf carts, and stealing only a share of their market. Price is a problem, too. "Value is benefits per dollar," says Carlson. "For a lot of the world, a small lightweight bike is a good alternative to a $5,000 Segway...
Already, U.S. officials are finding it hard to keep up the optimistic spin. Shi'ite and Sunni politicians may now sit together, but their mutual hostility is undiminished, undermining the government--and al-Maliki can only look on helplessly. A political lightweight and compromise candidate, the Prime Minister doesn't have the clout to bash heads, much less deliver on his promises to pursue insurgents with "no mercy" and crush the militias "with an iron fist." As the politicians continue to bicker, the big tent is looking shaky; there were calls last week for several ministers--including the Interior chief...