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...kind of screwed itself over. Paper cards, stale candy, and the cheapest flower that money can buy: it’s inherently kind of insulting to receive these things in earnest from someone you’re romantically involved with. But getting a Tonka truck Valentine from your best friend or a yellow carnation with “Please fix me up with your brother at Loyola” is hilarious and—dare I say it?—heartwarming...
...grim political situation in Lebanon today stands in marked contrast to the heady optimism, two years ago, of the so-called Cedar Revolution, the month-long series of street demonstrations triggered by the killing of Rafik Hariri and 22 other people in a massive Valentine's Day truck bomb explosion, which tore through Beirut's plush seafront hotel district. Hariri had been on the verge of leading an electoral campaign aimed at ending the dominance of Lebanese politics by neighboring Syria, a goal that many Lebanese believe cost him his life. "The Syrian regime killed my father," said Saad Hariri...
...partial guest list, including comic Jim Turner, Andy Richter, Neil Flynn from “Scrubs,” and their old touring buddies, Tenacious D. An early episode features guest Will Ferrell challenging Naked Trucker to a road race, then slicing the front tire of his truck before taking off on foot to the finish line. But special guests don’t make a show, and for these two comics, it all comes back to the characters they’ve created. “T-Bones is a character who is on a quest for truth...
...proclaimed Iraq policy a disaster. They say he should have stepped out of the chain of command and said what no general in the service has said since Shinseki was bounced out a few years ago: that the civilians at the White House and the Pentagon were driving the truck off the road. But Casey, if he believed that, kept it to himself, and that's where Democrats say he stumbled. I'm not sure this criticism is realistic: Crashing the chain of command is not a trait where the Army has ever scored high in its promotion boards...
...years. Fox's broadcast crew, he added, picked the racy T-shirt "from more than 70,000 spectators in the stadium." With so many eyes fixated on what's being beamed out of the stadium - from the cameraman taking the shot to the directors and technicians in the production truck watching the monitors - "how can you possibly take this apology seriously...