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...John Forsythe Show (an Air Force major inherits a San Francisco girls' school), in 1969 To Rome With Love (a widower moves his three daughters from Iowa to the Eternal City for a teaching position) and, as he was nearing 75, The Powers That Be, about an inept U.S. Senator whose wife (Holland Taylor) runs the show. Imagine the James Gregory-Angela Lansbury couple from The Manchurian Candidate, remove the sedition, add broad laughs, and you have this short-lived 1992 farrago, dreamed up by Marta Kaufman and David Crane just before they created Friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charlie's an Angel Now: John Forsythe Dies at 92 | 4/3/2010 | See Source »

...front lawn. "Jesus is coming back," she said, "and the four horsemen too." Sometime in 2012, she thinks. Nevertheless, she declined to join the Hutaree or any other militia group because, she said, "I don't want my kids involved in that stuff." (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hutaree Among Us: A Michigan Town in the Glare | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...Detonating a nuke on the ground would leave cities in shambles and radioactive for years to come," one points out. "If they had any plot to reuse the invaded land, they would most likely go for an EMP approach." (See "radioactive assassination" in TIME's list of top 10 inept terrorist plots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMP: The Next Weapon of Mass Destruction? | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...Lewis, Derby, England A truly united Europe could be a blessing for the whole world, but the E.U. is inept, divided and undemocratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe Speaks Back | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...slogan on the Hutaree's website declares (it has a background of military fatigue). A photo on the site shows 18 men holding rifles in a wooded area. There's also a two-minute YouTube video showing men running through woods, wearing fatigues, shooting rifles. (See the top 10 inept terrorist plots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Name in American Paranoia: Hutaree | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

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