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...winner since Labor Day weekend. But those rooting for an underdog had plenty to cheer about. The Blind Side - the true-life sports movie about a determined white woman and her adopted black son - finally overtook the vampires and werewolves of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at the North American wickets, according to studio estimates. And none of the three debut films in wide release could earn even half of what The Blind Side did. The only movie to spark hopes of box-office gelt and Oscar gold, Up in the Air, opened in limited release. (Read "The Blind Side...
Part of the media coverage has focused on the developing drama between Democrats and Republicans. In this sense, they are merely spectators of American politics and say little that really implicates them. The Financial Times emphasized the political risk that the surge represents for the commander-in-chief with the headline, “Obama gambles his presidency on Afghanistan,” as did Le Monde, both in its news coverage and in an editorial titled...
...Spanish paper, El Pais, framed the speech more as a plan for withdrawal than a surge proposal. The biggest Italian paper, Corriere della Sera, ran the headline “Obama: Troop Withdrawal Starting in July 2011” and a subhead that reads: “The American president announces his Afghan exit strategy...
Europeans have a more nuanced view. Le Monde and Le Figaro—the center right, more pro-business French paper—both seemed skeptical of the claim that winning in Afghanistan is vital to American interests and highlighted the inherent contradictions of a strategy that seeks to placate Democrats and Republicans but pleases neither...
After a yearlong trial, American student Amanda Knox was found guilty for killing her British roommate while studying abroad in Italy in 2007. Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison, on counts of murder and sexual assault, while avoiding Italy's stiffest life sentence. Her ex-boyfriend Rafaelle Sollecito was sentenced to 25 years. Knox, 22, was accused of killing British roommate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, in November...