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...Alice must seize the vorpal sword and slay the fearsome Jabberwock. In assuming this challenge, she becomes a female Frodo, Wonderland's Joan of Arc. This twist legitimizes the feature-length running time but also risks turning this jovially anarchic enterprise into your standard action-adventure. The film is better at reveling in eccentricity than at replaying Excalibur. (See the top 10 movie performances...
Rather than better primaries and more Crossfires and Perots, how about clean elections and public investment in a healthy press that is less corporate-controlled...
...along with the rest of Iraq, prepares for national parliamentary elections on March 7. Inside the fortified government headquarters, Diyala's governor, Abdul-Nasser al-Mahdawi, is relatively optimistic that the elections - the fifth poll since the U.S. brought democracy to Iraq - will go smoothly. "The country is getting better at elections," he tells TIME. "In the first, the fraud was about 40%. In the second, let's say 20%." Still, al-Mahdawi, who belongs to a Sunni party that opposes Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led governing coalition, worries about an élite counterterrorism unit...
...moment you met Dawn, you knew that your life had been touched by a unique, very precious person. She brought inspiration and light into the lives of all she met. Dawn was the kind of person whose very presence made those around her better. Her loss doesn't change that...
...discounted tuition of $2,145 per semester for church members. BYU students quoted in the article said that they wouldn't want to attend Harvard—one said the tough academics would have made her "feel so insecure" about herself, and another said BYU extracurriculars are clearly better because he hasn't "seen Harvard on ESPN...