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...Take, for example, the opening of the show, which moves from a lip-synch of Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” to a classical piece that plays under the prologue. In the same vein, self-parodying gags like the announcement of each character’s entrance in the final scene with a spotlight, a theme song, and a pose are wonderfully funny—especially because they play off the tone and conventions of the era’s plays...
...spoke in person and from the grave, honored and pitied as heroes and pawns. Jessica Lynch was no "little girl Rambo from the hills of West Virginia who went down fighting," she told the lawmakers investigating what families are told about how soldiers die. NFL star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman had not died a hero under enemy fire, his brother Kevin said, but died by friendly fire. And in both cases, the chain of command told a different story...
Kevin, who had served in the same platoon, recoiled at the "calculated lies," including a Silver Star awarded his brother because the Army needed a hero as much as it feared a scandal. It was weeks before the Tillmans learned the truth. "We've all been betrayed," Pat's mother Mary Tillman said. "We never thought they would use him the way they...
...without a chance to rebound from a disappointing first day that saw the Crimson finish 10th. In a field in which only two players broke par, the Brown Bears’ Larry Haertel captured the individual title with a 71 after winning a tiebreaker against Army’s Pat Beverly. Harvard’s team score of 310 left the Crimson trailing leader and eventual winner Sacred Heart by 14 strokes, as Harvard finished a combined 22 strokes over par. Brown placed ninth, beating the Crimson by just two strokes. “We really should have done...
...Goodling, 33, a graduate of Pat Robertson's Regent University Law School, resigned from the Justice Dept April 7. Several days before, her Washington lawyer, John Dowd, invoked her Fifth Amendment privilege and informed Congress that she would not answer questions about the dismissal of the U.S. attorneys. (The White House and Justice have denied allegations that the targeted prosecutors were fired because they were either pursuing either too many corruption cases against Republicans or too few against Democrats.) Among the grounds cited for Goodling's decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment was the fact that Deputy Attorney General, Paul...