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The episode opens with SCDP throwing around ideas about the Jaguar advertising campaign. Peggy is left out of the action and watches as her male counterparts feast on lobster courtesy of Roger. One of the reps from Jaguar wants to sleep with Joan in exchange for throwing business SCDP’s way. ‘Why didn’t you tell him [...]

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The much anticipated invasion of King’s Landing by Stannis Baratheon’s army is the focus of this episode, one that has promised a lot of action in addition to some resolution of lingering plot threads. Whether Cersei’s trust in Westeros’ own version of napalm is misplaced will be put to the test. ‘If the city falls, [...]

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We discover that Lane is a tax cheat and apparently has not paid his taxes to the sovereign back home in England. A friend tells him that it can all go away if he pays $8,000 in back taxes which is a massive amount. When his wife Rebecca asks him what he is doing awake [...]

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Asha Greyjoy arrives on horseback to Winterfell. To Theon’s dismay, her greeting is less than warm and her approach less than respectful. She lets him know how stupid killing the Starks was in terms of their worth. In a moment of tenderness, she attempts to convince him to come home to the Iron Islands instead [...]

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A mix of 29 Chinese and North Korean fishermen were taken hostage by armed men on a gunboat while fishing in the Yellow Sea between the People’s Republic of China and the Korean peninsula. It was not immediately clear if the hostages were held by North Korean authorities or an unaffiliated group. Thus far there [...]

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The economic downturn has claimed many victims: individual citizens, corporations, countries and potentially entire monetary unions (such as Greece in the euro). Iceland is no stranger to economic hardship, becoming the first nation to declare sovereign bankruptcy in years when it did so in 2008. In order to jumpstart the economy, use of the loonie [...]

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Defense strategist Li Xiaojun advocated that Australia choose a ‘godfather’ between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, calling Australia’s close military alliance with the U.S. a throwback to the Cold War era. Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr met with his counterpart and future Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Australia to celebrate 40 [...]

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Francois Hollande, fresh off of his victory over former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, declared during the campaign that the ‘world of finance’ is his enemy and now he has a chance to make good on his promises to dilute the power of the financial sector in French politics. Among his proposals include increasing taxes on [...]

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Greek President Karolos Papoulias has announced that talks to form a coalition, technocratic government have failed and new elections are expected. Evangelos Venizelos, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), has presided over three failed coalition talks and is now instrumental in forming a caretaker government to chaperone Greece into its next round of elections. [...]

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This episode opens with a shot of Betty weighing out her cheese to accompany her morning toast to the soundtrack of a thunderstorm. This is likely as a part of a new diet regimen and Betty’s absence from the past few episodes makes her return a remarkable thing. Back at SCDP, Don reviews the work [...]

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