Word: shelfful
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...networks in 2007, a step back from complicated serials like Lost that virtually demand a postgraduate degree to watch. The strategy amounts to unintentional strike-proofing, since it requires viewers to remember less mythology. Like canned peas, these shows are just as enjoyable after a year on the shelf...
...nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic nationhood. Any honest obituary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn must take into account his shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian society, we can always go back to Orwell. As for a perversely beautiful celebration of the Russian spirit, I’ll stick with “The Brothers Karamazov...
...demand for books by or about the contenders. Joe Biden's memoir was just reissued in paperback, and a second Sarah Palin bio is already in the works, with 100,000 copies coming out in October. While Barack Obama's two books are best sellers, John McCain fills more shelf space: since becoming a Senator, he's penned five hefty tomes with speechwriter Mark Salter...
...Abbas just yet. The Israeli Prime Minister said that while the fate of Jerusalem would remain unresolved, the remainder of a peace agreement that would give the Palestinians control over much of the land occupied by Israel in 1967 was still probable. The proposed deal, of course, is a "shelf agreement," an exercise in marking out the parameters of a future peace process that would be implemented only when Israel's security demands are met. The assumption, in the talks, is that the current Palestinian leadership would be unable to enforce a peace deal, and that it would instead serve...
...Minister himself expressed two weeks ago in Paris, when he told French President Nicolas Sarkozy that Palestinians and Israelis have never been closer to a peace agreement. Until now, Olmert had been playing along with a rosy Bush Administration-scenario that predicted a peace agreement (if destined for the shelf, rather than implementation) by the end of 2008. Palestinian negotiators are now saying that without an agenda that includes Jerusalem, which Palestinians want to share and make the capital of a future Palestinian state, even the shelf-agreement talks are meaningless...