sentences:  A reporter is discussing a singer's private life, while below runs a strip announcing Senator Irving's new military plan for Afghanistan.Hayes suddenly falls quiet, contemplating the choices with which his professor had left him.Matthew Michael Carnahan was inspired to write the script when, while channel surfing trying to find a USC Trojans football game, he saw a news report about a Humvee that had flipped into an Iraqi river, drowning about five U.S. soldiers.