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...that it was BAFTA's fault: all it can do is send out the invitations and keep its fingers crossed. There's no excuse, though, for the limp material that host Jonathan Ross, the BBC's high-priced answer to Jay Leno, was tossing out all night. His running gag - that the writers' strike had left him with nothing but a bunch of lame puns - is a shtick Leno used months ago. And it doesn't make sense anyway, since Britain's writers aren't on strike. The evening's evidence does suggest, though, that in sympathy with their...
...recession, Paulson answered: "I've been careful to say I believe we're going to continue to grow," said Paulson. "If you're growing, you're not in a recession, right? We all know that." On Friday, Paulson ushered through a $168 billion stimulus package that he says will send checks to 130 million people in the U.S. by the end of summer and add "seven-tenths of a percent to GDP, more or less...
...connected. Some of Ellen’s monologues often have little bearing on the plot of the play, but these and similar moments create the context that keeps the play from being one-dimensional.The play ultimately walks a fine line between satire and something more tragicomic. One feels that a send-up of Hollywood and its literary cannibalism can’t be the end goal of the play; the target feels too easy. The play is stunted emotionally by its one-liner mentality, and while it may intentionally explore the superficiality of Hollywood culture in its dialogue, its affectation...
...grant.” The alleged victim in the case, Wolfe B. Styke, is a sophomore at MIT whom Tang dated for several years. Their relationship ended at the beginning of October, according to court documents. Though the two were at first on friendly terms, Tang soon began to send threatening e-mails to Styke. On one occasion, court documents say, she even told Styke that she was going to get a knife to harm either herself or another person. The incident for which Tang has been charged began on the night of Oct. 22 when she saw Styke studying...
...Those casualties are taking a toll at home. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned last month that Canada would pull its 2,500 troops out of Afghanistan altogether by early next year if allies do not agree to send more troops to the embattled Kandahar province, which stretched Canadian troops now on patrol. "Kandahar is the center of the Taliban insurgency," he told reporters in Ottawa last month. "If NATO cannot put all the necessary troops and equipment in Kandahar province, I don't think it's ultimately going to do it anywhere...