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At first glance, the casting of Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart seemed a smart choice. I couldn't think of anyone else who could revive the cocky idiot savant that Don Adams had created back in 1965. Adams' Maxwell Smart was created to satirize the wildly popular spy films of James Bond. Adams played the inept, bumbling and perpetually confused yet unexpectedly successful Agent 86.

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Silence is Not a Virtue

Centuries ago, Afghanistan was a vital stop along the ancient Silk Road where cultures of the East and West converged. Artifacts from that rich cultural crossroads are currently on display at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. — after being hidden away for more than two decades in Kabul.

It's been more than a month since a cyclone ravaged Myanmar and killed 78,000 people, leaving another 56,000 missing. The United Nations says that to date, relief aid has reached only half of the more than 2 million survivors. Aid workers and survivors describe the disaster and conditions since Cyclone Nargis.

As big-money developers flock to Karachi, Amber Alibhai is one of the few people to openly question the development. In a city where millions of people live in poverty and clean water is often scarce, the activist asks, who needs golf courses? Alibhai's work has provoked threats against her and her family.

Singh built his reputation directing high-end commercials for companies such as Smirnoff, Coke, Pepsi, Levis and Nike, and by making music videos for bands such as REM. In those short, non-linear, non-traditional narrative formats, Singh didn't need compelling content just eye-catching images that could sell a product or a song. In retrospect,

Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan insists his scathing memoir is not the work of a disgruntled ex-employee — as some of his old colleagues have argued — but an effort to tell the truth to help clean up Washington.