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Okay, but can we talk about how Adam Schiff looks like the lovechild of President Logan from “24” and Peter Pettigrew from "Harry Potter”?

LOS ANGELES -- In its quest to have unstoppable Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) of the Los Angeles-based Counter Terrorist Unit save the world each season in 24 hours, the hit FOX melodrama "24," airing Monday, takes frequent detours from reality. One of its conceits is that its fictional presidents -- who are all on Bauer's speed-dial -- don't seem to have the huge cabal of Secret Service agents, aides and advisors that surrounds real presidents (judging by the number of former presidential aides and advisors that pop up as talking heads on cable-TV news). Instead, Presidents David Palmer (he...

THE White House sought to distance itself today from the US administration's approval of an Arab company's takeover of operations at major US ports, a day after President George W. Bush vowed to veto any legislation to block the deal. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president was not aware of the pending deal until it was approved and had become public but then checked with cabinet secretaries to make sure they stood by their approval of the plan by state-controlled Dubai Ports World to manage six ports. Mr Bush held a rare news conference on Air Force One...