The best song from 2004's Violence in the Snowy Fields, "To Destruction" (audio), perks up only slightly, finding a glimmer of a sliver of a hint of a silver lining to things falling apart.

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How do we keep things from falling apart?

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In a medium where the notion of community rarely gets explored beyond a hug and a neat wrapup, and in a season when the safe, tame comedy of Jay Leno has wiped five hours of drama clean off the board, the producers of FNL have dug after something deeper: The idea of decay, of things breaking apart and falling away.

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And specifically, he testified in great detail that the business was falling apart, and that Jeffrey Skilling, nontheless, was telling the world and investors that things were going well.

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