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This incident should give the candidates the opportunity to admit their fallibility, and instead of vilifying one another, they should actually debate the issues at hand. What could be sexier than that...
...level a crusade to redeem the dad, right a big wrong and in the process exceed every expectation--and then some? Ask old Bush hands about how much of this race is about that race, and most dismiss it out of hand, even though nearly all of them will admit to you that's why they are back in the fight. Only two or three will even talk about George W.'s complex motivation, and those who do choose their words carefully. "Look," says a Bush confidant, "somebody once said that to understand what moves a man, you have...
...might guess, this book does not admit much humor--it is, after all, an account of Daru's slow and painful descent from yuppie respectability to scumminess. But Moth Smoke never gets cumbersome, and even at its most heavy, the narrators are a sympathetic and colorful bunch. They are all, by Pakistani standards, moneyed and elite. (Even Daru, the novel's hard-luck case, has a servant boy.) Most everyone has a sport-utility vehicle to negotiate the rotting streets of Lahore, a city without enough public works to take care of its roads. Indeed, the novel at times seems...
...admit I had thrown the first hubcap, aiming it like a Frisbee in the direction of the Christian right in South Carolina. But does that make me... Satan? (On the other hand, it is true that I was trained in high school by the Jesuits...
...like this before, and they've been torn between reputation and ratings before. They've always gone for the ratings." Viewers may be hesitant to embrace Grushow's message for another reason: Shows like "Multi-Millionaire" generate stupendous ratings, and that means people are watching in droves - whether they admit it or not. Good taste is hardly a prerequisite for nabbing a record-breaking audience share, and in fact, really horrible taste is often a guaranteed ratings-booster. "People were watching 'Multi-Millionaire' because they were grossed out," says Poniewozik. With their eyes on the bottom line, network executives...