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...make sequels chic. (An Oscar for Best Picture will do that.) In 1977, the opening crawl of Star Wars - announcing the film as "Episode IV: A New Hope" - stoked an endless stream of sequels, threequels and prequels, some inspired only by greed for blockbuster status they will never attain. Among this summer's underperformers are a sequel (The Chronicles of Riddick), a roundup of old movie monsters (Van Helsing) and two dips into antique legend (Troy and King Arthur). Studios might have risked less if they'd actually tried something original...
...rule-based system is in the interest of all countries, especially today, because globalization makes deadly weapons relatively easy to attain and terrorists relatively difficult to restrain,” Annan said, regarding collective security...
America's Presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. But only John Adams and Herbert Hoover lived past 90; Ronald Reagan was the third, and perhaps the only one to achieve the goal of dying young as late as possible. When he passed away last week at age 93, he had long been gone from the public stage; but that meant that people remembered him as he had always been, a man of easy grace and endless hope, whose hair would...
...rule-based system is in the interest of all countries, especially today, because globalization makes deadly weapons relatively easy to attain and terrorists relatively difficult to restrain,” Annan said, regarding collective security...
...with Heart Disease" hit the nail on the head when it said we have become victims of progress, an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle. In the past, heart disease mainly affected those in affluent Western countries. But today in South Asia, particularly in India, the rat race to attain and keep a place in the élite class has produced some bad results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease...