Word: momentous
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...more, at least the other channels show a steady diet of games, while the MLB Network is slated to show a relatively paltry 26 of them all season. It could still increase that number this season, and it plans to air more games down the road. But for the moment, the channel is contractually restricted from airing games opposite those being broadcast on ESPN, Fox and TBS, baseball's national television partners. Will fans care enough about documentaries, shop talk and game highlights that they can get from ESPN - and from ESPN personalities they've become attached to - to turn...
...moment, five new films that touch on the Nazis' Final Solution - Defiance, The Reader, Good (which prompted TIME critic Richard Schickel to call for a moratorium), The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Adam Resurrected - are in theaters. A sixth, Valkyrie with Tom Cruise, is a Holo-cousin: it details a 1944 plot by German officers to kill Hitler. Taylor notes that since the early 1990s, when Steven Spielberg was preparing his Oscar-winning Schindler's List, there have been 170 Holocaust movies. (The Internet Movie Database lists 429 titles on the subject.) It has become not just a topic...
...that make the life of a con artist a dubious career track - not the least being the risk that you'll get caught. No matter how grand your ill-gotten Bentley or your cooked-books villa, they have to be hard to enjoy when you know that at any moment the jig could be up. The hope - and the thrill - is in the fact that that's only one possibility. The other is that the scam is so good you'll never be nabbed...
...Department of Defense plans to have 20,000 uniformed troops expressly trained to assist in national disaster rapid response at a moment's notice. Since Oct. 1, some 4,700 soldiers belonging to a brigade combat team out of Fort Stewart, Ga., have already been engaged in the new assignment, according to Air Force Lt. Col. Almarah Belk, a spokeswoman at the Secretary of Defense's office. The $556 million, five-year training program is part of a broader, $2.3 billion FEMA project to have civilian authorities in states such as Massachusetts, South Carolina and Washington work with the military...
...which is organizing its fourth annual anti-New Year protest under the slogan "2009 Stays In Its Shell." "Last year we warned a mocking world that 2008 would be horrible compared to 2007, and we were right. This time everyone acknowledges 2009 will be terrible, so now is the moment to unite together and refuse this new, rotten year!" (Read TIME's top 10 oddball news stories...