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...bandwagon started rolling quietly enough: an early profile in TIME about its barely known star, very enthusiastic reviews, and an opening box office weekend that outperformed analysts' estimates. Knocked Up, a comedy about a young career woman (Katherine Heigl) who finds herself pregnant after a one-night stand with a chubby stoner (Seth Rogen), finished its first three days at $30.7 million - which happened to be, almost exactly, the movie's very modest budget. That number was enough to make the film a sturdy second last weekend to the mega-threequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which...
...These could be the legs of a comedy hit on the order of There's Something About Mary, the Farrelly Brothers romantic farce that lingered near the top of the box office heap all summer of 1998, finally made the No. 1 slot in its ninth week, earned $176 million in North America and (rare for a comedy) even more abroad, and won Cameron Diaz a Best Actress citation from the New York Film Critics Circle. Knocked Up could do even better, based on the rapturous reviews - the most favorable of any mainstream movie this year, according to the Rotten...
Still, in Yuma County, where gasoline costs around $3.35 per gal. in recent weeks--ethanol E85 fuel was $2.43 per gal.--seldom is heard a discouraging word. Even Brad Rock, who is being hit hard by rising feed prices for the 4,000 head of cattle on his Box Elder Ranch in nearby Wray, admits that the ethanol projects "are good for the community from a jobs perspective...
...Siriporn is not the first Thai to box her way out of jail. Two years ago, fellow inmate Wannee Chaisena faced another Japanese, Nanako Kikuchi, in the 2005 world straw-weight title bout. Like Siriporn, Wannee was in prison for dealing methamphetamine, or "crazy drug" as it's known in Thai. Unlike Siriporn, Wannee suffered a technical knockout. But the beaten fighter still managed an early exit from prison the following year, when Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej pardoned her, along with three other female prison pugilists...
...sure when. The picturesque woodland setting seemed appropriate, but they returned to Sawlit’s house sans ring. That evening, at a dinner to celebrate her mother’s birthday, Sawlit, sitting next to John W. Hastrup ’06, could feel the rectangular ring box in his pocket. It wasn’t until they were back at her house, in her bedroom, that he got on one knee. “If I’d had to wait any longer…” Sawlit says, trailing off. Hastrup finishes the sentence...