In 2002, "Boss of Me" (the theme to the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle) earned They Might Be Giants a Grammy.

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Besides BBC Persian, satellite channels include MBC Persia and Farsi1, which airs local-language versions of entertainment shows like "Malcolm in the Middle" and which is half-owned by News Corp.

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"To a large extent, Israel's military offensive in Gaza was carried out with weapons, munitions and military equipment supplied by the U.S.A. and paid for with U.S. taxpayers' money, " Malcolm Smart, Amnesty's Middle East director, said in the report.

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Social science popularizer Malcolm Gladwell explains in his book Outliers, that people descended from herding cultures such as those that flourished in the Middle East depended for their safety upon the creation and maintenance of public reputations for violence.

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