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...complete disinterest. A “hmph” or dismissive nod might indicate a slight acknowledgement of the hassle of getting up at 5:30 a.m. in order to be at work at eight. Yet other than that, the response is one of “tough luck.” But as much as I like taking on the role of martyr, the fact of the matter is that I enjoy my commute to and from work as much as I enjoy the job itself.Whereas a native Bostonian might look on an hour-long trip to Providence...
...crush the revolution: subversion, dirty wars, mercenary invasions, assassination plots against us. I have an Olympic record in that regard, and I should be awarded a medal because there is no individual against whom so many assassination plots have been contrived, who is still living. That is partly luck. And partly because of the inefficiency of the ones who carried out the plots: they were not fanatics but people who were paid...
...package deal may come with a lot of loose ends--and people who want to pull at them. Progress in the Middle East has always started with small steps, compromises with unsavory enemies, ambiguous words that might evaporate or, with luck and hard work, be made to stick. If Hizballah can't be eliminated, whatever chains it can be made to wear must be slipped on slowly, using a lot of hands. That's diplomacy. If the process looks ugly, the alternative can be viewed in the rubble and graveyards of Beirut and Haifa...
...trainer to whom life has delivered one sucker punch too many (no, that will not be the last boxing clich in this review). The fighter is Chicky Garza, a good-hearted, hard-hitting Tex-Mex punk, 62-9 with 33 KOs and a whole lot of old-fashioned bad luck. Dan and Chicky need each other. Connect the dots...
...With luck, the industry will soon know comedian Kightlinger (Lucky Louie), who also created and writes this acerbic, indie-flavored complement to Entourage's big-budget studio fantasy. Minor Accomplishments gets off to a middling start, with a forced, satirical episode involving a cult and '70s movie icon Sally Kellerman. It gets realer and funnier in the next three, which focus on Jackie's dream: writing a long-gestating biopic about her aunt, a '30s Roller Derby star. The movie gets sold--not by Jackie but by a man she briefly dates who steals the idea. She ends up hired...