Word: stewart
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...speeding toward the checkpoint (after, the driver says, being waved through), they blow it up, injuring the driver and killing the woman in the back seat, who had been about to give birth. After the sergeant's death, one of the squad's less evolved members, B.B. Rush (Daniel Stewart Sherman), starts frisking an Iraqi schoolgirl with unseemly sexual forcefulness...
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama already has a Letterman appearance under his belt, as well as one on Oprah. He did The Daily Show With Jon Stewart last week, where he offered a sample of his wit to soften serious talk. When Stewart, referring to his oft-cited lack of experience, asked if he'd consider running a smaller country, Obama quipped: "No, what I did think about though was invading a smaller country...
Much of what Ben Bernanke spends his days doing oscillates between the incomprehensibly arcane and the unspeakably dull. Lately, though, the Federal Reserve chairman has a stark, even exciting task at hand. He's been imitating Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life and trying to halt a bank...
...While Stewart's George Bailey had to make do with his powers of persuasion and his honeymoon fund to save the Bailey Building and Loan, Bernanke has the full faith and credit of the U.S. government behind him. The Fed can effectively print U.S. dollars at will. It can even, as Bernanke famously suggested in 2002, drop them out of helicopters, if that's what it takes...
...become interested in soccer? -Brian Stewart, Everett, Wash. It was about four years ago, the first year the Home Depot Center [the stadium where the LA Galaxy soccer team plays] was opened. I needed a local sports team to route for in LA, so I started going to soccer games and I got hooked...