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...admirably feral greed. Blair's Kim is just a cartoon idiot. ("It's over!" she declares about her marriage. "O-V-U-R!") If you can't even make your characters believably dumb, you've got problems, and while Shannon does her best with what she's given, the mother-daughter dialogue plays like bad Oscar-presenter patter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fall TV: Remade in the USA | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...McCain had been trotting out a black wristband from the mother of a Corporal Matthew Stanley for cheap sympathy points since August of last year. I should have seen it coming: At just the right moment and in a lowered voice, he intoned, “She said, ‘Senator McCain, I want you to do everything—promise me one thing, that you’ll do everything in your power to make sure that my son’s death was not in vain...

Author: By Elise Liu | Title: Democracy 0, Man-Bracelets 1 | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...would. But then Obama, in a tone of exasperation, delivered his single zinger of the evening: “Let me just make a point. I’ve got a bracelet, too.” And then he stumbled. “From, Sergeant, uh, from the mother of, uh, Sergeant, Ryan David Jopek...

Author: By Elise Liu | Title: Democracy 0, Man-Bracelets 1 | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

...that someone will be charged with a crime." The patience of the law won out in the end. Last Friday night, Milwaukee police, acting on a tip about the location of 2-year-old Jesse, entered an apartment on North Richards Street. They found the boy in his mother's arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sad End to Milwaukee Child-Custody Case | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

...mother was born in Barbados...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Debate Moderator Gwen Ifill | 10/2/2008 | See Source »

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