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...conservative show? Yes, in the sense that the thriller is a conservative genre. Ticking time bombs and pure-evil bad guys make for exciting TV. Working patiently to improve America's image in the Muslim world--not so much. (Maybe Aaron Sorkin could spice it up with an office romance and lots of walk-and-talks.) Muddy a terrorism thriller with liberal concern over root causes and you get Syriana, whose plot audiences couldn't follow with a GPS device. "The politics of the show," says executive producer Howard Gordon (a registered Democrat), "are narrative politics...
...pure physics. "If you're lower than a tackler, you have better leverage, and he can't stop you from going forward," he explains. Since Tomlinson slithers, he's also less likely to take direct hits, keeping him durable. He has never missed a game because of an injury, a remarkable feat in the bone-breaking...
Gingrich also notes that conservative activists are never entirely happy with their choices. "In an ideal world, they would find a new Ronald Reagan. They haven't found one," he says. "But remember, there were a lot of ideological conservatives who were unhappy with Reagan because he wasn't pure enough," having signed the nation's most liberal abortion law when he was Governor of California. And in the end, of course, elections give voters a choice among the people who are actually running, not the people they wish were running. As one G.O.P. official put it, "Nothing will rally...
...acolyte. On Jan. 1, unless Belarus agrees to pay double what it used to for Russian gas ($105 per 1000 cubic meters instead of the current $46), Moscow will cut off gas supplies and leave its erstwhile ally in the cold. Other observers believe something more shadowy than a pure grab for more money is in the works: a reincorporation of Belarus into a reconfigured Russian Federation. "It does feel like war is about to break out within days," says journalist and human rights activist Irina Khalip in a phone call from the Belarus capital of Minsk. "People are stockpiling...
...McCaffrey’s comparison of President Salvador Allende to Fidel Castro, because it is Pinochet who will be remembered alongside the Cuban dictator. Throughout his apologetic treatise, McCaffrey argues that Augusto Pinochet should be absolved of his crimes because he committed them in the pursuit of his uniquely pure ideology. But like Castro, who stated explicitly his desire to be absolved by history, Pinochet will find no absolution. He will be remembered only as a tyrant, a murderer, a traitor to his country, and a betrayer of his countrymen...