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...wanted to show the disabled were no more and no less f___ed up than anyone else." When writer Jack Thorne came on board - he's the creative talent behind the edgy, teen-drama series Skins and Shameless, a comedy about a wildly dysfunctional working-class family - he took the project in a more sophisticated direction, creating a layered story line that lures viewers into caring about the characters even as they laugh at the stupidity of anyone who voluntarily consigns him- or herself to the human zoo that is reality TV. (Read a TIME cover story on reality...
...Musulin was a nobody, a single 39-year-old man who drove an armored bank security van in Lyon, France. Then on Nov. 5, when two co-workers briefly left him alone to run an errand, he allegedly vanished with more than $17.2 million in unmarked bills. It only took police a few days to recover most of the stolen loot - nearly $14 million - in a storage unit in Lyon, and then on Monday, Musulin turned himself in to authorities in Monaco (without the remaining $3.8 million). Many Frenchmen may have been a little disappointed by the news...
...same time, White House officials had been preparing alternate means of broadcasting the town hall online. The event, which took place Monday at 12:45 p.m. local time, was shown live over Whitehouse.gov, and Obama took a number of questions from an online Chinese audience. But it was the President's own remarks which will have made for the main headlines. Obama defending the freedom of the internet by stating that "I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable." He also...
...characters who wield real power on the ground - and that often requires turning a blind eye to corruption and other transgressions. Washington is looking to turn up the heat on Karzai to crack down on corruption by making clear that its commitment to Afghanistan is finite. Yet if Karzai took the threat of a U.S. pull-out seriously, it could make him even more reliant on ties with unsavory protectors...
...This is the second prominent apology Rudd has made since he took office in a landslide election in 2007. The first was to the "stolen generation" - tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children who were removed from their families between 1869 to 1969 by the government. (See pictures of the day Rudd apologized to the stolen generation...