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Rescue Me (FX, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T., debuts July 21) is about dealing with it--"it" being death, individual and multiple, the death that came for your buddies before and the death that may come on your next shift. There's nothing amusing about the show's inspirations--Leary's personal loss and the aftereffects for the F.D.N.Y. of losing 343 fire fighters on Sept. 11, 2001. And yet it is not just one of the most moving but also one of the funniest shows you will see this year: a sort of post...
...study speculated that the shift could be attributed to several factors...
...study, published in the spring 2004 issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, found that recent numbers point to a downward shift in the proportion of women retaining their own surnames—breaking a three-decade-long trend in which that proportion had risen...
...study also suggested that “a general shift to more conservative social values” contributed to the downward trend...
...Iraq invasion helped tilt the balance in Tehran in favor of the hard-liners, its aftermath had the opposite effect in Washington. The failure of the wildly optimistic projections of the neocons to pan out in Iraq has seen the balance in the U.S. foreign policy shift inexorably back towards the realist camp. Where the State Department had initially been shut out of postwar planning by the Pentagon, by the beginning of 2004 it was effectively in charge of the Iraq mission...