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...Klein's story was very dangerous and misleading. No matter what the latest conclusion is from some of the government's analysts, the President of Iran has threatened a U.S. ally with extinction. When Iran becomes a greater threat, perhaps more Americans will finally understand that his pockets may have been empty, but not his armory. Silas Mariano, Oceanside, Calif...
...whether they work for a city department, a corporation or a drug cartel. A pusher, a homicide cop, a teacher, a union steward: they're all, in the world of The Wire, middlemen getting squeezed for every drop of value by the systems they work for. "Every day, they matter less as individuals," says Simon...
...next lucky group that gets to matter less is journalists. In the final season, Simon goes inside the fictionalized offices of his former employer, the Baltimore Sun. (He credits the newspaper for being "gracious" enough to let him use the name.) The idea, says Simon, is to ask, while continuing to lay out the problems that manifest themselves in bodies and police cases, "What were [the journalists] doing when Rome was burning? What were they paying attention...
Have you changed personally since the 2006 Olympics? Kevin Melo, BELTSVILLE, MD. It's a matter of perception. I can make everyone think that I'm not partying, or I could easily make people think the other side. In the past, it's been a matter of where the media have put the focus. This year with my team separating and other things, there's a lot of other stuff to focus...
...months to buy a pair of Levis," says Harjot Singh, a 28-year-old assistant manager with a call centre. "Today, many of my colleagues are 20-somethings... They have their own money, and the girls don't need permission from their parents to buy jeans, or for that matter, short skirts...