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Writers Guild of America Strike Leader Jeffrey D. Melvoin...
With the writer’s strike still raging and new installments of “The Office” on hold, now’s the perfect time to reflect upon all the good times we’ve shared over the past four years with the faithful staff at Dunder-Mifflin. Rather than giving in to the urge to weep, just look on the bright side: Jim and Pam are finally together (which is all that really matters) and hopefully, a settlement will come soon. 1) Meredith’s Birthday (Season 1, Episode 4) Amidst downsizing rumors...
...began to set on what would have been an ordinary day at the beginning of the third millennium, the light shone through the window to strike two ordinary young scholars. They were hungry. But they were also privy to a different hunger. Watching how the light passed unrefracted through the simple dining hall window, they yearned for the aesthetic elevation that only a stained glass window could provide. But then again, they also wanted to eat.How, then, could they satisfy these both the most base and most cerebral of yearnings? They thought long and hard. Finally, an electronic courier proclaimed...
...Kabul, he is now reduced to servicing others’ Mustangs from behind the counter of a gas station. These scenes could be vignettes from any twentieth-century immigrant’s life in the U.S., and in this respect the film’s themes strike a slightly more universal note than the particulars of the narrative might suggest.The movie has received a fair amount of attention since the parents of the actor who plays young Hassan requested that the scene in which the boy is raped be removed from the movie altogether. Later, amidst growing concerns about...
...Since 9/11, the FBI has begun using legions of Muslim or Arabic informants in hopes of rooting out radicals before they strike. The main informant in this case was a Middle Eastern man named Elie Assad. He had worked for the FBI for years before he approached Batiste, posing as an al-Qaeda operative named "Brother Mohammad." He earned about $80,000 for his services...