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...very strange that comedians suchas Jay Leno, Dave Letterman and Conan O'Brien are "forced" to air reruns during the TV- and movie-writers strike [Nov. 19]. Didn't they get their start in show biz by writing their own material? I guess they're just too rich now--or too blas--to go back to their roots. Seems a shame, doesn...
Perhaps while the writers are onstrike, one of the TV networks could air a new reality show called So You Think You Can Write? The show could feature aspiring writers competing to come up with the winning script, which would then be used as the basis for an actual network series. Who knows, the show might produce scripts that are better than those currently used by the networks...
...Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman confirmed that U.S. forces had carried out an air strike in Africa. An AC-130 gunship, he said, had targeted "what we believe to be senior al-Qaeda leadership." Whitman neither specified a location nor confirmed reports of other U.S. attacks. Asked about another air strike on Jan. 23--confirmed to TIME by a Pentagon officer--Whitman said, "We're going to go after al-Qaeda and the global war on terror, wherever it takes us." He continued: "I don't have anything for you on Somalia...
...Musharraf shut down news channels on the pretext that they incite Pakistanis against the government. The corrupt Benazir Bhutto could become Prime Minister, having been pardoned through a controversial ordinance for stealing $1.5 billion from the Pakistani public. The judges who were going to strike down the ordinance were removed and put under house arrest after being manhandled by the local police. Militancy, suicide attacks and other forms of terrorism have increased greatly under Musharraf's rule. I am reminded of when the U.S. supported Saddam Hussein while he was brutally killing his own people. Will Pakistan end up like...
...Jordan B. Weitzen ’08, whose Eliot House suite is one of the few on campus with access to satellite television, the television writers’ strike this month has come as something of a blessing in disguise. “It gives me more time to concentrate on more important things, which is nice with papers and finals coming up,” Weitzen said in a telephone interview. Across campus, even among the masses whose dorm-room channel selection numbers in the single digits, the Writers Guild of America’s protest calling for greater...