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...like dreams, can speak more obliquely. Last year's big dramas were The Mentalist, Lie to Me and House--jaded hits for the era of Katrina and the subprime disaster, based on the premise that people lie all the time. Maybe 2009's America--the country that swooned over Susan Boyle--will respond to we're-all-in-this-together shows like Fox's underdog musical Glee or NBC's aptly named sitcom Community, about a diverse group of misfits getting a new start at a junior college...
...different world, a slower world, one that is closer perhaps to the world that Howe wrote about in “What Hath God Wrought” than to the modern era. The book covers the period between 1815 and 1848. Its popularity is remarkable because, as Susan Ferber, acquisitions editor for the Oxford History of the United States series, wrote in an email to The Crimson, “It’s not an obvious period for many, since it doesn’t cover the American Revolution or Civil War or World War II. Instead...
...Saturday night - just ask the nation's beleaguered police. Yesterday evening, pubs and clubs fell silent as 20 million people tuned in to a TV show to see a question of global significance finally resolved. The final of Britain's Got Talent wasn't just about whether Susan Boyle - Scotland's least processed export since steel-cut porridge oats - would triumph. Nor were viewers drawn simply by the lure of car-crash television amid frenzied media speculation that Boyle or some other vulnerable contestant might crack on camera. The BGT final was nothing short of a referendum on Britain...
...resign after it published faked photographs - his tone of moral outrage might have rung a little hollow. But under the spell of BGT, a vast swath of Britons suppressed their congenital cynicism and concentrated on rooting for their favorites - and for Queen and country. (See TIME's video "Susan Boyle...
...Boyle was behaving erratically in the days before the final raised questions about whether she should really be competing at all. "[The BGT producers] have a whole army of doctors, psychiatrists and experts all available to any contestant at any time. They have all been taking great care of Susan," said Morgan...