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...meantime, tempers are flaring on Capitol Hill. If the White House intended this nomination to its nose at the Democratic minority, it has succeeded. Sens. Charles Schumer of New York and Richard Durbin of Illinois have angrily pledged to fight the Pickering nomination...
...Yunnan province dropped $40,000 into stocks, surrounded himself with how-to books on beating the market and rigged up a computer in his bedroom so that he could watch himself grow rich in real time. It wasn't to be. Nowadays the charts on his computer screen inexorably nose dive. Chen's savings have depreciated by 60% in the past two years, and he has no doubt about who's to blame: "They're always saying things will get better, but the government is stealing the sweat and blood of the people with these lies...
Instead, the typical reality-TV hit of 2002 took a retro format and gave it a good nose piercing. The Osbournes was a '50s nuclear-family sitcom with dog poop, drug rehab and F words. American Idol, with its aspiring teen stars and vicious-insult wars, was Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour as reconceived by Jerry Springer. And The Bachelor wed--literally--'50s gender relations with 21st century sex. The show's secret (clear to its viewers but not to the paleofeminists and moralists who decried it) is that while The Bachelor pretended to celebrate a primitive dating ritual...
...almost bumped Nightline off ABC, long editorials were written saying that Ted Koppel's show is indeed smart--many by Ted Koppel himself. After extensive video review, we determined that people should not dangle their babies over the railing of the third-floor balconies or shave off their entire nose. We pretended to get newly upset about all sorts of things we already knew, like that figure-skating judges are corrupt. Wait until people find out how boxing works...
...that Rowley became the FBI's public conscience. Two weeks later, she was called back to Washington to testify in the open, her Coke-bottle glasses slipping down her nose, her circa-1985 hand-me-down plaid suit crying to be put back into the closet. She issued damning indictments--agents were drowning in paperwork and lived in fear of offending the higher-ups. "There's a certain pecking order, and it's pretty strong," she said. "It's very rare that someone picks up the phone and calls a rank or two above themselves." And in the next breath...