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...million range. So industry swamis were surprised to see that in the early studio tabulation last Sunday, the movie came in a close second to the Pixar hit Up. The following day they were flummoxed by the full weekend figures, showing that The Hangover actually beat out Up for the No. 1 slot, $45 million to $44.3 million. Films flip-flopping the top two positions from early estimates to final ones: that hardly ever happens. (TIME Reviews The Hangover: A Bro-Magnon Bromance...
Virtually none of it is ad-libbed. We have the greatest writers in television, truly. They write every 'um' and 'ah' and beat and pause. We are all talentless on the show and can do nothing without writers. That's basically what I'm saying...
...population, residents of small towns all over the country are struggling and looking for solutions. In Pikalyovo, they may have found one. "By blocking the road we've set a precedent," says clay-quarry worker Markov. "It was an effective action, and the police did not arrest us or beat us. We are not afraid of the authorities anymore, and we will do it again...
...Those six beat out four other candidates, two of whom were nominated by petition. Professor Margaret Levi, a professor of international studies at the University of Washington, and Mark D. Gearan ’78, the president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, were nominated by the Harvard Alumni Association, and lawyers Robert L. Freedman ’62 and Harvey A. Silverglate ’67—who informally ran together—were nominated by petition...
...witnessed routine atrocities, including the execution of both his mother and brother. Before his escape in 2005, Shin was tortured at least twice, once for accidentally dropping a sewing machine in the garment factory where he was forced to work at the camp. He also watched a prison guard beat a small girl to death for hiding a few grains of wheat in her pocket. (See pictures of North Koreans at the polls...