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...Litigating against a CEO (Ted Danson) in a pump-and-dump stock scandal, she hires--or exploits?--a young lawyer (Rose Byrne) with a personal connection to the case; it's soon an open question which one of them Patty is a greater threat to. In TNT's Saving Grace (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Holly Hunter is Grace Hanadarko, a tortured, hard-living Oklahoma City cop who sleeps with whom she likes, drinks as much as she likes and will sucker punch anyone she doesn't like. In the first scene, we see her fully naked in bed--with...
...given their level of education, isn't it surprising that the plotters chose such crude weaponry? Yes and no. True, the foiled bombs were rudimentary collections of gas canisters, gasoline and nails--no biological, chemical or radioactive elements, not even any C4 or TNT. But what matters is not the technological complexity of a device but how many people it can kill. The London car bombs were fuel-air explosive bombs--designed to produce a huge fireball by igniting aerated liquid gasoline. Had they worked, scores of people could have been severely burned. Similar explosives were used...
...point outing against the Lakers in Los Angeles; hit two game-winning three-pointers at the buzzer; and made dozens of acrobatic shots. The ability to hit long bombs or flash to the basket makes Arenas a nightmare to cover. "He's storybook," says former NBA guard and current TNT broadcaster Kenny Smith, of Arenas...
...rest of us: they can use their megabucks not only to do good, but to secure global, intergenerational fame at the same time. We remember Alfred Nobel much more for the prestigious prizes endowed by his estate than for his invention of that deadly staple of modern armies, TNT. Many more people are aware of Rhodes Scholarships than the career of the brilliant imperialist and racist Cecil Rhodes, who founded them with the profits from his African diamond mines. And in the course of just a decade, Bill Gates has managed to transform his image from visionary but cutthroat capitalist...
...What is clear as of the writing of this column is that something exploded underground on Oct. 8. Whether it was a full-out nuclear explosion, a failed test, or simply a hoax—some have speculated the always-wily North Koreans simply stockpiled a lot of TNT and blew it up—remains unclear...