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...snow storm along the East Coast crippled business for all movies." That makes sense. Cities from the Carolinas to New York were carpeted in a foot to two feet of the white stuff, making traveling ill-advised; and some folks planning a Saturday night at the movies, especially The Big Movie, might have stayed home. There's only one problem with the Fox statement: it isn't true. A check of the numbers for the rest of this weekend's top 10 movies, on Box Office Mojo's daily chart, reveals that all of them sold more tickets on Saturday...
...Avatar faces a quicker, stiffer challenge from the debuts of a big romantic comedy (It's Complicated, with Meryl Streep, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin), a big action picture (Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr. as the martial-arts sleuth) and Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, plus the long-awaited wide release of Up in the Air. The competition of that imposing lineup suggests a cloudy forecast for Avatar, with or without snow...
...these outlooks is going to be proven wildly wrong. So then why venture such big, bold guesses at the future in the first place? Well, because one forecast might be close enough to right to pay off handsomely. "A lot of unexpected things happen each year, and you can make a lot of money as long as you get some of them right," says Byron Wien, a Blackstone Group vice chairman who puts out an annual list of ten surprises for the following year. "If you cut your losses on what you get wrong and let your winners runs...
Even these figures leave out people who say they want a job but haven't looked in the past year. Economist and gadfly John Williams, whose online newsletter Shadow Government Statistics has gained a big following lately, adds them in, makes a few tweaks and gets to 21.8% unemployment in November, down from 22.1% in October...
...more vulnerable and the weaker the central government looks," says Christopher Boucek, a Middle East associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "The government has such a limited capacity that they can only deal with one problem at a time," says Boucek. "They're not focused on the big picture issues that the United States cares about like counter-terrorism or security or al-Qaeda...