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...Last year I put the finale of the BBC's The Office on my top 10 list, after putting the original series on my list in 2003. "NBC is working on an adaptation for next year," I wrote. "If they can find the American equivalent of this comedy of quiet desperation, it'll be welcome on next year's list too." They did, and it is. Naysayers who complained that this version wasn't as dark as the British one, or that Steve Carell's boss wasn't as tragicomic as Ricky Gervais', missed the point. Producer Greg Daniels created...
...Bright Eyes I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning; $12.98 At 25, Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes, is expert at turning his disenchantment into fuel. He's not wild about himself or his country at the moment. But instead of sounding desperate or polemical, the best of these quiet, well-observed songs do something far tougher-create a mood. Lua, about seduction and loneliness, feels like a shameful walk home on a winter morning, while Landlocked Blues starts as a breakup song and meanders its way into an antiwar ballad. The link, at least by Oberst's reckoning, is futility...
...polls opened a minute after sunrise in Baghdad today. With most cars banned from the road for security, an eerie quiet filled the streets at a time when the horns of morning traffic would normally begin their daily cacophony. Moments after 7 a.m., as the first voters walked through the crisp, clear morning air to join lines at polling stations across the city, the peace was broken by the shockwaves from a mortar landing inside the fortified Green Zone. By mid morning, TIME reporters were turned away from a busy polling station in Kerada, just south of the Green Zone...
...estimate. "Villagers are emboldened when they hear of other protests," says Joseph Cheng, a political-science professor at the City University of Hong Kong. "That has to worry the central government when all it wants is for GDP rates to go up and for people to keep quiet about the unfortunate byproducts of Chinese economic growth...
...their kicks-and their 5 minutes of media notoriety. Wiser heads will eventually prevail. Political and community leaders will need to be less complacent about what's really going on in the suburbs. And soon the chatter will return to cricket, high temperatures, the flies and, hopefully, how our quiet way of life should never be taken for granted...