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...sort of spin-off of the 2005 BBC political comedy series The Thick of It, the movie is directed by series creator Armando Iannucci and written by Thick veterans Iannucci, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche and Ian Martin. Its central character is a Candidean foreign minister in the British cabinet, Simon Foster (tiny, beset Tom Hollander). A sweet-souled doofus of the second tier, Simon is invited to attend to top-secret conferences, but not to give opinions, only as an extra body - "room meat." And he's so fearful of scandal that, if left alone at night...
...students called the police on the Black Men’s Forum and Association of Black Harvard Women barbeque in the Quad following a heated discussion on the Cabot House email list in which many expressed skepticism that the picnickers were actually Harvard students—the same sort of skepticism that may have compelled Gates's neighbor to phone in a burglary when she saw a black man attempting to force open a door...
...even though Gates followed the instructions Obama gave to the NAACP about “putting away the Xbox” and hitting the books as well as anyone possibly could, that couldn’t stop him from being arrested in his own home. It is the sort of ugly fact that does not fit in well with Obama’s rosy, American vision...
...natural causes, of Patarkatsishvili, who would have been a key witness. His testimony survives in the form of reports from interviews conducted by lawyers, but on July 22, the second day of a pretrial hearing, Abramovich's lead attorney, Andrew Popplewell, referred to this evidence dismissively as a "sort of smorgasbord" of testimony. Popplewell is seeking to convince the presiding judge that Berezovsky's case is weak and should be dismissed before it goes to trial...