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...external stimuli suddenly seemed snakebit. Correspondence released in Texas included a number of gushing cards and letters from Miers to Bush--including a 1997 birthday card in which Miers sounded like a breathless teen in a fan letter, declaring, "You are the best Governor ever--deserving of great respect!" Every effort to right the situation only made it worse. Even Laura Bush--the President's safety valve in times of trouble--irked grouchy conservatives with a mild comment on NBC's Today show. Standing beside her hammering husband on a Habitat for Humanity lot in soggy Louisiana, she said...
...Mohun Biswas wants is his own house, but when he marries into the daunting, smothering Tulsi family, he becomes a magnet for misfortune, oppression and humiliation. Set in the Hindu community of postcolonial Trinidad, Mr. Biswas is an epic of persistence and humor, of dignity and dogged self-respect...
...empathizing. But I think he's deeply superficial. He skids across the surface of issues. In foreign policy, that's accompanied by an excessive regard for his own ability to charm people into his point of view. doesn't a politician who wins three elections rate a little more respect? Blair's greatness was reforming a Labour Party that knew it had to be reformed. His reforms of public services were Conservative ideas he cottoned onto rather late and rather incoherently. But what is he going to be remembered for? Principally for Iraq. your affection for the u.s. seems...
...Office” is one of the funniest and most brilliant programs ever to grace a television screen. And, as with the British series “Coupling,” NBC swung and missed with the American version. With all due respect to Steve Carell, who is very funny in almost everything he does, the U.S. “Office” just isn’t very funny. The whole experience is like watching a version of “Da Ali G Show” starring James Rebhorn...
Whereas Brent could never get any respect from anyone, Millman manages (for the most part) to make friends, have success with the opposite sex, and, most importantly, make jokes that people on the show actually laugh at. Gervais also is not the center of attention. Each week he shares the spotlight with a big-name star satirizing him or herself; the first week’s episode featured an Oscar-hungry, foul-mouthed Kate Winslet, and last week was Ben Stiller’s attempt to make a poignant film about Bosnian war victims. Gervais’ cohorts include Ashley...