Word: vetted
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...harder time dealing with working-class adults. Fox's Luis (Fridays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), starring Luis Guzman as a struggling doughnut-shop owner in Spanish Harlem, is a parade of urban stereotypes, while NBC's midseason The Tracy Morgan Show (with the Saturday Night Live vet as a garage owner of modest means) is a cliched family-comedy...
...Wilson found no evidence that Saddam was seeking yellowcake - the International Atomic Energy Agency later determined this was probably untrue - but the CIA and National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice failed to fully vet the intelligence and President Bush used it in his State of the Union Address this year. After Wilson wrote an op-ed over the summer criticizing the Administration's handling of the intelligence about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction progam, Novak wrote that "two administration officials" told him Wilson's wife had suggested sending him to Niger to investigate...
...much. For proof, see Dirty Pretty Things, an English film written by Steven Knight and directed by indie vet Stephen Frears. On its face, this could be called an expose of the inhuman condition. Illegal immigrants trade their organs for fake passports, and the dangerous operations are performed in a London hotel room. For people following a dream of solvency from the Third World to the First, everything must be bought, at the cost of one's honor. "I don't want to take your virginity," a sweatshop owner tells an employee, forcing her into oral sex. "I just want...
...young men and women to kill and die in distant lands. And it's not only the quagmire-phobic antiwar types that can't avoid the Vietnam references: To raise their morale before entering Iraq in March, U.S. Marines in Kuwait were visited by R. Lee Ermey, the Vietnam vet who has become a USMC legend for his portrayal of a hard-as-nails gunnery sergeant in Stanley Kubrick's 'Nam flick "Full Metal Jacket." Ermey obliged by reciting some of his more memorable motivational lines from the movie, which as at least one embedded British reporter discovered, remains...
...domesticate cats, which they regarded as sacred. Mertz carries on the tradition. In her two-story solarium, dappled with sunlight, it seems as though cats are everywhere, strutting and preening as household gods. "They're all a little mad at me, because yesterday was the day for the vet," confides Mertz. In all, there are five felines: Dorothy, Nefret, Emerson, Ellery and Sethos...