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...Where is the laughter? The sorest of network sore spots in the age of reality TV has been the sitcom; except for "Everybody Loves Raymond," the networks have not been able to launch a top-10 sitcom for years. This year, most of the networks have invested heavily in potential sitcom pilots. Of course, they did last year too, and we got "Bette" to show...
...voices are hoarse and sore but it makes us feel so much more empowered to hear you guys out there," she said...
...continue to complain about U.S. air strikes in defense of "no-fly" zones in northern and southern Iraq. But Kuwaiti and Saudi officials seem in no hurry to close the U.S. air bases in their countries. Containment, though, is no long-term solution to the Saddam problem. The running sore of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue to increase Arab anger - and Saddam's street popularity...
...Schröder's credo is "politics should be all about putting the finger on the sore spot," even if that means antagonizing your friends. Since the youngster from Berlin, like many of her party's rank and file, is an uncompromising conservationist and anti-militarist, the first target of her criticism has not been the political opposition but the top brass of her own party, whom she feels have betrayed the ideals of the past. "Green politics no longer has anything in common with the original platform," she complains...
...made it two months into his presidency before his moderate rhetoric collided with his conservative instincts. On social issues, such collisions are inevitable. Last week, as the New York Times reported, Bush planned to ask the American Bar Association to drop its review of judicial nominees, long a sore spot for conservatives. But where business is concerned, Bush has often let Congress take the lead--and the heat. After banks, retailers and credit-card companies poured millions of dollars into both parties during the last election, the bill tightening the rules for consumer bankruptcy sailed through the Senate last week...