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...demoted," Rush replied, his intention now clear: to convey the impression that Clarke was more interested in AOL chat rooms than in al-Qaeda sleeper cells. Cheney agreed. "It was as though he clearly missed a lot of what was going on," he said, and then quickly went on to the Clinton Administration's sorry history of counterterrorism and Clarke's complicity in that...
...demoted," Rush replied, his intention now clear: to convey the impression that Clarke was more interested in AOL chat rooms than in al-Qaeda sleeper cells. Cheney agreed. "It was as though he clearly missed a lot of what was going on," he said, and then quickly went on to the Clinton Administration's sorry history of counterterrorism and Clarke's complicity in that...
...doubt, we’ll have teleportation devices. Maybe they’ll look like telephone booths, or perhaps they’ll resemble the Orgasmatron from Woody Allen’s Sleeper. In any case, when they finally are invented, teleporters will be the final surrender of travel to the armies of abstraction. And then the hoards of lei-draped tourists boarding their Abstraction Airlines flight to Costa Rica will shout, “So much for the journey. All hail the destination...
...nibbles from the major studios for his latest historical epic. Now that The Passion has opened vigorously, and has a chance to become the biggest foreign-language hit in American movie history, the studio sultans might be a tad annoyed with themselves that they turned down a sleeper hit they could have nabbed for peanuts last summer...
...hasn’t always been this way. In the past two years, nine of the ten Best Picture nominees weren’t released until the second half of December (the exception was summer sleeper Moulin Rouge). With a few extra weeks of campaigning time between the end of the year and the Oscar nominations, studios could afford to hold their best films until the holidays and then deluge Variety and The Hollywood Reporter with flashy “For Your Consideration” ads throughout the first month of the year. As awards season battles between...