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Foreign buyers are shouldering an extra risk, since they can buy an American show that works for them but gets canceled in the U.S. In Britain, Channel 4's acquisitions director Jeff Ford says he was willing to take a risk on the much anticipated NBC drama Studio 60 on...
After three years as a civil rights lawyer and law professor in Chicago, Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate and quickly established himself as different from most of the other African-American legislators. "He was passionate in his views," says state senator Dave Syverson, a Republican committee chairman...
The raising and dashing of expectations is at the heart of almost every great political drama. In Obama's case, the expectations are ridiculous. He transcends the racial divide so effortlessly that it seems reasonable to expect that he can bridge all the other divisions--and answer all the impossible...
Some former CIA operatives, and at least one active CIA agent were willing - indeed occasionally eager - to describe the renditions process to Grey, perhaps because they feared that they would be ultimately held responsible while the White House strenuously denied that rendered prisoners were tortured abroad. One former CIA agent...
Nor has Gen. John Abizaid, the Centcom commander who has been a key decision maker, been openly criticized or sharply questioned by Congress about his strategy. The get-along, go-along culture of the top brass creates tensions with officers in Iraq, who complain that their requests for more troops...