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...ravages Boston, it upends Lydia's life, claiming many loved ones as well as any semblance of a comfortable existence. Meanwhile, Driscoll is building QD Soda into a Coca Cola--like conglomerate...
...bull Irene until Guardsmen relented and took both aboard their huge halftrack truck. "I had enough food. I had enough water. I'm straight [meaning O.K.]," he says, dragging along a plastic bag of belongings. Robert Sanford, 62 and retired, sits on his porch in Uptown, drinking a soda and vowing to defy the evacuation order. "I don't need much," he says. "I got 12 gallons of water in the house. I got those Army meals they handing out--pork and beans, Cajun beans. I got Chef Boyardee too. This city will be better when they rebuild because they...
...images from New Orleans, some bloggers had their eyes on the captions. Two photos emerged as symbols of the race and class undercurrents in Katrina's aftermath. In the one below, a black person is described as "looting" a grocery store; the white people above are "finding" bread and soda from a store. WONKETTE posted both shots and sardonically asked readers to match the two captions. Then XRLQ cried foul because the photos were from different news agencies, AP and Agence France Presse...
Instead, Over There focuses, to borrow Donald Rumsfeld's phrase, on the narrow "soda straw" of the grunts' experience--a fog of war both physical and moral, with the only sure thing the desire to stay alive. The battle scenes may be the most visceral (literally) and gripping that series TV has ever done. As scary as the battle is the uncertainty. In one episode, the unit works at a checkpoint, unsure if they have killed good guys or bad guys even after they search the bullet-shattered cars. The show's power, of course, comes from knowing that these...
Even worse are the blatant special-interest politics that infests every piece of policy on the table. A proposal to ban junk-food sales in public schools is quickly advancing through the chambers in Sacramento, while one that would end soda sales (thought to be a direct cause of obesity that is easier to delineate than the nebulous label of “junk food”) is stalling due to aggressive lobbying from Pepsi and Coke. Such policies should at least be applied consistently...