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Jennifer Carpenter is on her way to a weekend bender! And it’s the best of all kinds for TV fans.
“I’m working on ‘The Good Wife’ and we’re working a ‘Fraturday,’” she tells us of her guest stint opposite Michael J. Fox. “Which means you start work Friday and don’t get off til the crack of dawn Saturday morning.”
Good times! But before that, we caught up with J.Carp to ask about that other awesome show she’s on, Showtime’s “Dexter,” to find out if Deb knows Dex’s secret, and what it’s like working with that other middle-initialed Michael, her ex-husband Michael C. Hall…
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Fans of the show from back when it originally aired were excited for the return of the duo, but there’s possibly some more good news.
We met with Jennifer as she shot a fashion feature for the site Stylecaster, and she told us she still looks forward to going to work on “Dexter.”
“I’m grateful that it is successful,” she explains. “Because, you know, six years in and to still be challenged by the work and proud of the work is quite an accomplishment. It’s largely in part to our writers. They are all powerhouses and sick in the greatest way!”
Despite filing for divorce late last year from “Dexter” star Michael C. Hall, Jennifer tells us the pair remain close while working together on the show.
“Has it changed anything? Yes,” she says of their time on the set. “[But] I mean, he is and always will be one of my best friends in the world. And just because the marriage ended doesn’t mean the love isn’t still there. We take very good care of each other and our cast, we always have, and I’m just really lucky.”
(Told ya she’s crush-worthy. Gotta love that positivity!)
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As for the seasons-long question “Dexter” fans are always wanting to know?whether Deb (Jennifer) will find out her brother Dexter is a serial killer?Jennifer tells us, “Just between us, I think that [Deb] has always suspected something dark, sort of like a dark undercurrent with him. There are just too many gaping holes with his schedule with how he connects and disconnects from her and other people. So I don’t think that she would say that ‘He must wrap people in plastic, and drive knives through their ribcage.’ You know? … I don’t think it’s quite cut and dry like that for her, but there is always a suspicion, and I feel like … I’ve always been right there with you the audience.”
Jennifer also revealed her own personal deepest, darkest secret, and we’ll let you be the judge on whether it’s worse than Dex’s.
“I watch ["Jersey Shore"] at the gym. I’m not going to lie. Yeah, I’m a fan, it’s entertaining to sort of turn your brain off. It’s like probably getting into the car with a drunk driver or something. [Laughs.] But you’re safe, you’re in the confines of your home or your gym.”
?Reporting by James Chairman
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) ? A leading presidential candidate of Mexico’s ruling party said on Wednesday he would break with government policy and withdraw the army from the fight against drug gangs if he wins the election in 2012.
Santiago Creel, a former interior minister belonging to the conservative National Action Party (PAN), told Reuters that President Felipe Calderon’s military strategy had served its course and that he would change “everything” as leader.
“The direct, frontal, expansive strategy is a strategy that should end with this administration,” said Creel, who is seeking the PAN’s nomination for the presidency.
Deaths from drug-related violence in Mexico have surged since Calderon sent in the army to fight the cartels when he took office in December 2006, damaging support for his party and causing strains in relations with the United States.
Calderon has endured withering criticism from victims of the drug war and opposition lawmakers for his U.S.-backed military approach but he has stood firm, arguing the cartels would have become too powerful if he had not acted.
More than 44,000 people have died in the conflict to date, and Creel said that if elected in the July vote, he would start taking the Mexican army off the streets as soon as he took office in December 2012.
“By my calculations this would be a period of transition of around 24 months,” said the 56-year-old Creel, a descendant of a U.S. immigrant to Mexico of Scottish origin.
Instead, he said priority should be given to attacking cartels’ revenue streams, cracking down on money laundering and cleaning up Mexico’s prisons, where top criminals are often able to continue running their crime gangs on the outside.
Creel, who also sought the PAN’s candidacy for the 2006 election, was an early front runner this time, though some recent surveys have shown former education minister Josefina Vazquez Mota could be overtaking him.
Opinion polls also show the PAN trailing the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for seven decades until 2000.
If the PRI won the election, it would be a serious setback for Latin America’s second biggest economy, said Creel.
“People are going to think hard about what returning to the past means, returning to this model … of agreements or shady deals with criminals,” he said.
Calderon also said earlier this month that some in the PRI could consider making deals with organized crime, a practice the party’s opponents say was widespread in Mexico in the past.
(Editing by Kieran Murray)
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Tel Aviv and Washington ? Quartet envoy Tony Blair held talks in Jerusalem and Ramallah today to convince Israelis and Palestinians to resume negotiations, a mission given added urgency by a looming vote on Palestinian membership in the United Nations.
Amid widespread pessimism that the two sides aren’t even interested in coming back to the table, the quartet of Middle East peace mediators ??? the US, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations ??? fears that the Palestinian bid could further unravel the peace process and isolate Israel.
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“The Quartet is panicked because there?s going to be a vote soon,” says Diana Bhuttu, a former Palestinian negotiator. “They want to make this [membership] application go away quietly and slip it under the radar… In the current situation, it?s not going to go away.”
Pressure on Abbas to drop UN bidMr. Blair, the former British prime minister, is trying to get the two sides to agree on a framework for peace talks. But the international community has so far failed to come up with a compelling incentive for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to abandon his much-touted bid for UN recognition and to drop his demands for a settlement freeze.
Their task became even more difficult last week when Mr. Abbas’s rivals in the Hamas party scored major popularity points by securing the release of more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier captured by Gaza militants in 2006. Should Abbas to back down from the statehood bid, which has won him widespread support among the Palestinian public, he could risk ceding ground to his Hamas rivals.
One potential solution would be another prisoner release, this time between the Israel and the PA ? a step PA officials have demanded in the wake of the Shalit swap. If prominent militants were included in such a release, it could provide Abbas a way back to talks, says Ms. Bhuttu.
But that?s unlikely to happen because hard-liners in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu?s administration are loath to boost Abbas after he launched the UN statehood bid, which they see as a unilateral act that reflects bad faith in the negotiating process. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman even went so far as to express hope that Abbas would resign.
Michael Oren, Israel???s ambassador to the US, said on Tuesday that the United Nations membership bid is a “contravention” of the territory-for-peace principle that has guided Mideast peacemaking since Israel conquered the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967. He said that were the bid to succeed, it would be an “immense blow” to the peace process because it would hamper Abbas’s ability to sell a deal to his people in the future.
“Mahmoud Abbas is going to come back to his people and say, you?re going to have to make some painful sacrifices. But you’re going to get something in return ? you’re going to get a Palestinian state,” he said, speaking at a Monitor breakfast in Washington. “The Palestinian people are going to look at him and say, ‘Well, wait a minute, we already have a Palestinian state. Why are you making all these painful sacrifices?’ “
US supports freedom in Tunisia, Libya, Syria ? why not in the West Bank?While Mr. Oren and other Israeli officials insist on direct negotiations as the only path to peace, Palestinian leaders are exasperated with nearly two decades of talks that have yet to deliver the independence they have long sought.
From the beginning of the Oslo peace process in 1993, the number of Israeli settlers in the West Bank, which Palestinians see as jeopardizing their aspirations for a state on the same land, have nearly tripled to more than 300,000. The Jewish presence in East Jerusalem has also expanded in smaller but strategic ways; in recent weeks, Israel has advanced plans for two new neighborhoods that critics say would compromise the contiguity of Palestinian areas.
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As Palestinians watch the US support the democratic aspirations of fellow Arabs from Tunisia to Syria this year, they seek similar American support for their own cause. Instead, the US threatened to veto the Palestinian statehood bid on the United Nations Security Council, which could come as soon as Nov. 11.
“This runs totally contrary to the principle upon which this country was founded,” said Maen Rashid Areikat, the chief of the Palestinian mission to the US, in a Monitor interview this week. “You don?t oppose the quest of a nation for freedom and independence to satisfy domestic political objectives.??
“[America] is much more important and larger than being handicapped or constrained by domestic politics,” said Mr. Areikat, speaking at his Washington office. But it’s not just American ideals such as liberty, justice, equality, and human dignity that are being called into question, he added; American interests are also at stake ? a point top US officials, including former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, have made in recent years.
“If American officials … continue to think that they can normalize their relationship with the Arab and Muslim worlds without allowing Palestinians to become free and independent, they are making a major mistake.”
Quartet proposalThe Quartet, torn by divisions about how to break the deadlock, is pushing Israelis and the Palestinians to agree to a framework for talks that would enable them to hammer out an agreement within a year and make “substantial progress” regarding security and borders within six months.
In the meantime, the Quartet proposal calls on Israelis and Palestinians to submit their own detailed proposals on those two negotiation topics.
Many observers say that even if Abbas and Mr. Netanyahu are incapable of reaching a deal because their positions are too far apart, promoting negotiations still helps prevent a slide toward violence.
But former diplomats caution that pushing toward talks prematurely will do more damage than good.
Gadi Batliansky, a former Israeli diplomat who supports a two-state solution, believes that if the US and its allies can?t get Israel and the Palestinians to agree on ground rules for talks, it should challenge the sides to be more specific about their end goals.
“When Netanyahu speaks about a Palestinian state, what does he mean? When Abbas says right of return, what does he mean,” he says. “If it?s impossible for them to agree, at least they should know the positions. The leaders should be taken to a crossroads where they have to make a decision.??
Handshake on the White House lawn: Not what’s needed nowRather than focusing on diplomacy, some believe that Palestinian aspirations are better served by efforts on the ground to prepare Palestinian institutions for independence.
Elliott Abrams, a former Middle East adviser to the most recent Bush administration, argues that Arab states, European countries, the US, and Israel would all be better served to support the Palestinian state-building drive spearheaded by PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad ? which could help boost the Palestinian economy and give the PA more authority over West Bank security.
?In my opinion the situation isn?t ripe for a negotiation,? says Mr. Abrams, now at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. “If your focus is on the great handshake on the White House lawn, your focus is not on the statebuilding project.”
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Amazon?published ?disappointing? earnings this week, and the market responded,?slashing up to 12 percent off the company?s value. It?s a market that?s preoccupied with fast returns, and so Amazon?s investments in data centers and cloud computing don?t necessarily translate to short-term profits. In other words, the company?s ups and downs highlight contradictions between companies investing to [...]
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??Drinking copious amounts of coffee may reduce the risk of the most common type of skin cancer, a new study finds. Women in the study who drank more than three cups of coffee a day were 20 percent less likely to develop basal cell carcinoma.
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LOS ANGELES ? DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. says its net income fell by half in the third quarter as its early summer release “Kung Fu Panda 2″ did not haul in as much at the box office as last year’s “Shrek Forever After.”
The company said Tuesday that net income in the three months to Sept. 30 fell to $19.7 million, or 23 cents per share, from $39.8 million, or 47 cents per share, a year ago.
Analysts polled by FactSet were looking for adjusted earnings of 20 cents per share.
Revenue dropped 15 percent to $160.8 million from $188.9 million a year ago. That was slightly better than the $159 million expected by analysts.
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) ? City crews in Savannah, Ga., have begun a major cleanup of the square where actor Tom Hanks proclaimed that life is like a box of chocolates in the film “Forrest Gump.”
Workers have started clearing undergrowth and cutting away dead limbs with a goal of making Chippewa Square a safer and more desirable city spot.
The Savannah Morning News reports (http://bit.ly/twdYTX) that tourists still seek out the park bench made famous in the movie.
Dave Knox, the city’s park administrator, said the landscaping hasn’t changed much in the past two decades.
Officials said azaleas grew to about 12 feet tall and 8 feet wide over the years, and homeless people frequently crawled into the underbrush for extended stays. Officials said those plants and others will be trimmed considerably.
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