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...distant third, with $26 million for the weekend, was Public Enemies, with Johnny Depp impersonating John Dillinger under Michael Mann's direction. Somehow the story of a bank robber who died 75 years ago didn't seduce the holiday audience. Maybe when the grownups have packed their kids off to summer camp, they'll belatedly discover this rare July movie aimed at adults. In holdover action, the two Are-they-gonna-get-married? comedies The Proposal and The Hangover maintained healthy chunks of their audiences, and Pixar's Up, challenged by another 3-D animated feature, finally lost altitude...
...month ago, British Health Secretary Andy Burnham issued a statement urging British citizens not to panic despite a surge in the number of cases of H1N1 influenza in the country. Now it seems health officials have the opposite problem: they are urging parents not to hold "swine flu parties" that some people believe will build up children's immunity by infecting them with the virus...
Sweet, who worked closely on the budgetary planning that so prominently dictated the University's operations this past year, is not the only high-profile finance administrator to leave the University this summer. Harvard announced little more than a month ago that its Executive Vice President, Edward C. Forst ’82, would leave Harvard in August for Wall Street, where he had worked for 26 years. Forst worked closely with Sweet in his role overseeing University finances amid the economic downturn...
...demand for a U.N. probe was partly inspired by the international body's investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri four years ago, says Hussain Haroon, Pakistan's ambassador to the U.N. "We thoroughly investigated the Hariri case, but there were some pitfalls there that we want to avoid," he says. "In this particular case, the government of Pakistan was interested in retaining some aspects of sovereignty, whereas in the Hariri case, they were not in the hands of the Lebanese government." Other crucial differences include the fact that "the Bhutto Commission," as it is being...
Conservatives view the budget crisis as an opportunity to slash California's spending back to the level it had reached 10 years ago. "Gross overspending and fiscal irresponsibility will not be tolerated by the people of California," says Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth. Liberals, however, see this as an attack by the right on the public infrastructure that helped make California an economic giant, and an act of war against the poor and minority populations in particular...