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...general election. (Imposing a second successive unelected P.M., the assumption goes, would be one too many for the electorate to swallow, making a national poll inevitable.) Rebellion was stymied, too, by a failure of the disgruntled to unite behind a policy agenda or a credible successor. When Alan Johnson and Miliband - the two leading contenders for the role - took plum jobs in Brown's reshuffled cabinet last week, the likelihood of such a move waned. (See the top 10 most outrageous British expense claims...
...Unless your definition of pure perversity includes the portrayal of a convicted pedophile ("I'm not supposed to be within 200 feet of a school," says Alan, "or a Chuck-E Cheese") who's given weekend custody of a baby; or if your idea of the decade's funniest movie would contain a scene where our heroes get repeatedly tasered before a class of cheering children. You'll also need an indulgence for racial (Asian) and sexual (gay) stereotyping, and the sight of inappropriate gentlemen with their pants off. All right, granted, that last bit is always funny. The rest...
...script, by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, sends four guys - Doug the groom (Justin Bartha), plus Alan, his fiancée's oddball brother (Galifianakis), and Phil and Stu - to Las Vegas for a booze-babes-and-baccarat bachelor party two nights before the wedding. It'll be, one promises, a "night we'll never forget." Next morning, three of them come groggily to in their suite. With them are a tiger in the bathroom and an infant in the closet. Missing, to their horror, are the groom, one of Stu's front teeth - and any memory of what happened...
...Lehman Brothers didn't just collapse and go away. Much of its U.S. operations were bought by British bank Barclays, which retained 80% of Lehman's U.S. investment bankers. Japanese bank Nomura has also been hiring here. Alan Schwartz, who was formerly the head of the failed investment bank Bear Stearns, recent landed a job at one of Wall Street's so-called boutiques, Guggenheim Partners. He's not alone. Recruiters say not only was the job downturn in the financial industry shallower than the rest of the economy but it appears to be turning earlier as well...
...Berlin, Alan David •firing of from position as aide to Pennsylvania state senator famous for being tough on sex crimes after arrest of for propositioning a 15-year-old boy on the Internet and discussing having sex with him while wearing animal costumes...