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...hosts who have held out for longer might get a pass from the strikers. Letterman's gesture of support for his staff this week, for example, appears to have won him a lot of goodwill. Bill Scheft, a striking Late Show writer, says that "we would have no problem" if Letterman were to go back on the air without writers. "We are thrilled that he is standing with us," says Scheft. "David Letterman on the air without writers, pissed off and talking about the strike, would be the greatest ally the writers could have...
Then again, it's hard to make a feel-good war movie when a country's reputation falls as its body count rises. The U.S. hasn't had a clear, exhilarating win since World War II. (The 1991 Gulf War doesn't count, since it lasted little longer than Viva Laughlin.) So The Kingdom tried to find an old-fashioned upside by dispatching Jamie Foxx and his FBI team to find the Arabic villains and kill 'em all--a fantasy solution to a real dilemma...
...replenished its foreign reserves (a record $44 billion today), pared debt and built a strong fiscal surplus. "Overspending and overindebtedness caused the crisis," says Redrado, noting that much of that excess occurred, ironically, during the more market-oriented government of President Carlos Menem in the 1990s. "This is no longer a policy of the right or the left. It is common sense...
...Earthlike orbit passes in front of a star like the sun," he says, "it dims the star by 1 part in 10,000 or even less." Since a habitable planet around an M-dwarf is much closer--about 7 million miles (11 million km) away--the transit lasts significantly longer. And since the star is smaller and dimmer to begin with, the light reduction from one of these mini-eclipses is more like 1 part...
...general has shown through his eight years in power that he is nothing if not tenacious. If the deal is off, so too are his gloves. Bhutto can no longer expect any special treatment from Musharraf and could find herself in the same position as other opposition politicians--in jail or in exile again. The crackdown on her Pakistan People's Party will probably intensify. Musharraf "is capable of doing anything now," says Iftikhar Gilani, a former law minister under Bhutto who also has been a member of the general's party. "He has already confronted the press, the judiciary...