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...problem occurred when the machine ran out of room on its puny 30-gigabyte hard drive (space enough for about 10 hours of TV at best quality). Loath to delete or miss anything TiVo had saved especially for me - who wants to disappoint a machine that has worked so hard?--I lost a lot of sleep watching things I wasn't quite in the mood for. Take the night I stayed up bleary-eyed through the three-hour Russian version of Solaris just so TiVo could cram the next day's Simpsons and West Wing onto its NOW PLAYING list...
...Byrd precedent is everything. And everything about the Iraq war--from the radical new doctrine of military pre-emption to the Administration's failure to offer an estimate of the war's cost--ate at Byrd's sense of tradition. Conservatives and liberals who think he's a peacenik miss the point. With Byrd, the rules aren't picayune but the bricks of democracy. His legendary 98.74% voting record grows out of his faith that every vote matters, even when it's merely procedural. For him, God--and the Republic--is in the details...
...those 'clicks' that she talks about, and they came like a machine gun." By the time the epiphanies stopped, Mertz's marriage was over, as well as her days as a housewife. "I'm not knocking homemaking," she is quick to say. "I would have hated to miss my children's first words and first steps. I just wish there had been more options for us women...
...encouraging trend, several new shows have black or Latino leads, at a time when the medium is still lacking in them. And not every scripted show looked like a snooze. CBS is offering Joan of Arcadia, about a teenage girl who talks to God; in NBC's Miss Match, Alicia Silverstone is a divorce lawyer and matchmaker. UPN's The Mullets--about a pair of hard-rockin' idiot brothers with the eponymous short-in-front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas...
...George Bernard Shaw's leading lady, first as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion and then, most memorably, in Major Barbara. Her aristocratic bearing served her well as a tourist in Sidney Lumet's Murder on the Orient Express and as the elegant widow in the London stage version of Driving Miss Daisy...