Word: unkindnesses
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...revolutionary. Years before The Sopranos, it showed Americans that TV could tell stories as novels do. Its success led PBS to create Masterpiece Theatre--it was the soap that launched a thousand bustles. To say that remaking the show now is not quite so daring is kind. To be unkind--and honest--it only bolsters the criticism that PBS these days is redundant and irrelevant...
...more ambitious warlords in their place, and the International Security Assistance Force composed primarily of European troops (currently led by Turkey). And the reluctance of the U.S. to sanction any expansion of the peacekeeping mission beyond the 4,000 ISAF troops currently in the capital has earned Karzai the unkind nickname "Mayor of Kabul," since his writ doesn't run much beyond the city limits. Even there, some U.S. foreign policy experts believe he's in danger both from the Pansjiris and from the increasingly confident anti-Karzai jihadis...
...oldest baby boomers are now 56, and this aging demographic bulge, to use an unkind word, means that surging demand for things like hip replacements, Viagra and Caribbean cruises can't be far off. The problem facing investors is that Wall Street saw the "age wave" coming and long ago snatched the first opportunities. Nursing-home stocks, for example, had a torrid run in the early 1990s. But the industry overbuilt, and the stocks have lagged ever since. Financial-services stocks are a similar story. Wealth managers will no doubt be in increasing demand as a prosperous generation tends...
...angry unkind words you've said They make those teardrops start Why can't I free your doubtful mind And melt your cold cold heart? - recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis, early...
...willing to reveal to a judge) to support keeping him in prison. By week's end, the nation's focus was on the constitutional and legal challenges posed by denying a U.S. citizen the rights of due process, rather than the threat presented by Padilla's discussions and training. Unkind voices in Washington even drew attention to the fact that the timing of the announcement had helped the administration forestall criticism over the government's handling of intelligence and security matters...