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...motorcade. Suddenly, they drive by: Anwar Sadat standing up in the limousine next to Jimmy Carter, whose grin is nearly as toothy as it seems in the photos. Later, the two Presidents address the Egyptian assembly about the Camp David agreements they'd worked on with the Israeli Prime Minister, the basis for the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty to be signed later that month. Carter assures them that the goal is "comprehensive peace." President Sadat says the American President has come on a mission, "to wipe out from the lands of prophets and religions all threats and evils...
...country's Feb. 7 presidential election, former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych defeated sitting Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko by 3.5 percentage points. Though the vote received high marks from international election monitors, Tymoshenko refused to concede and signaled that she may ask for a recount. Tymoshenko may be hoping for a repeat of the Orange Revolution that followed the 2004 presidential election; that uprising ousted Yanukovych after he was accused of electoral fraud. Any election appeals must be lodged by Feb. 17, when Kiev will declare the results official...
...either way, what you're left with is a prime-time TV show about topical concerns, at a time when people would like to see some humility in our CEOs; a show, like Discovery's Dirty Jobs, about toilet cleaners and garbage pickers and other people that "quality TV" rarely takes notice of; a show, at heart, about how absolutely crazy-hard ordinary people work...
...nonsense government ads flash onto prime-time Mexican TV between soccer games and steamy soap operas. Bullet-filled corpses are shown sprawled on the concrete; ski-masked special forces are seen storming down residential streets; and bearded bulky capos are dragged before the cameras in handcuffs. "Today these killers are behind bars," says a booming voice-over. "We work using force for your security...
...Tony and Cherie Blair. Then again, they could be another political power couple, Bill and Hillary Clinton: the salesman and his less charismatic but brilliant wife. Is the woman betrayed by the man, or is she controlling him, or both? Could either a U.S. President or a U.K. Prime Minister be a Manchurian candidate, his policies programmed by an outside agency? That's enough conspiracies even for Polanski...