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...Gibson's hand is on the movie too. It was the success of Gibson's 2004 Crucifixion film, The Passion of the Christ--which no studio wanted to touch and which earned $1 billion in worldwide box-office and DVD sales when the director funded it himself--that made believers out of Hollywood executives and ushered in a flurry of faith-based filmmaking. "I could kiss Mel on both cheeks for showing Hollywood the size of this market," says Matt Crouch, son of televangelists Paul and Jean Crouch and producer of One Night with the King, the story of Esther...
...which López Obrador still insists he is the legitimate President. This surely will complicate Calderón's dealings with the public-sector unions and with sensitive symbols like the national oil company, Pemex, which desperately needs foreign investment, now outlawed. "Mexico needs to think outside the sovereignty box," says Raul Rodriguez, former CEO of the North American Development Bank, but Mexico's nationalization of Rockefeller's Standard Oil company holdings in 1938 is still commemorated every March 18 as National Expropriation...
...fight back, the city's traders have organized strikes and protests, some of which have turned violent. Given their numbers, however, their most useful tool might be the ballot box. Local, state and federal politicians, worried that the clean-up will hurt them at the next election, have filed legal challenges against the Supreme Court's decision, and plan to propose new legislation that would allow some merchants to keep their shops. Smith also wrote that the U.K.'s "government is influenced by shopkeepers." That seems equally true in today's India...
...early stages. The referees called four first-period penalties on Colgate, including a five-minute major and a game misconduct on Mike Werner, who slammed into junior Jon Pelle along the right boards at 9:25. The Crimson, for its part, sent two men to the penalty box in the game’s first four minutes en route to four first-period offenses of its own. “Emotionally and physically, we were a little bit drained coming in,†Donato said. “I think that showed up with a couple of lazy penalties?...
With both teams serving frequent sentences in the penalty box during the first period, Harvard (2-4, 1-4) finally broke through during a 5-on-3 advantage, with junior Mike Taylor netting the rebound after a blocked shot by freshman Doug Rogers...