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Deanna Frankowski, the beck fan mentioned in your article, is "sick and tired of being ignored"? Give me a break! I had to wait through eight years of an Administration that brought this country to the brink. Frankowski should sit down quietly while the rest of us get to the task of cleaning up Bush's mess. Besides, this health-care debate isn't about those over 30; it's about the millions of uninsured, recently graduated young people saddled with loans we can't imagine paying off, who are sick and tired of living in an abyss created...
...years since Vaughn and Favreau made their early rep with the smart buddy-comedy Swingers. In the interim, Favreau has become a respected director (Elf, Iron Man) and Vaughn, pretty much, a movie star. Three of the films he has top-lined - Wedding Crashers, The Break-Up and Four Christmases - have taken in about $450 million at the North American box office; and even his 2007 Yuletide flop, the egregious Fred Claus, did $72 million. An actor who gets people to pay to see the bad movies he's in: that's a good definition of a star. The odder...
...heart of Pakistan's military establishment came under attack on Saturday as Taliban gunmen disguised as soldiers attempted to break into the army's heavily fortified headquarters in the garrison town of Rawalpindi. The initial fierce firefight left six military personnel and four attackers dead, but a tense standoff continued for 18 hours as five other militants took more than 20 soldiers and civilians hostage within the compound. Early Sunday morning, a military spokesman said, Pakistani commandos raided the building and freed 22 of the hostages, though three of them died in the operation; four of their captors were also...
...maternal reason. Jenny's romance with David has deepened, and she has started telling off her superiors, recklessly burning academic bridges she might need to cross on a return trip. Miss Stubbs urges Jenny "to go to Oxford, no matter what. 'Cause if you don't you'll break my heart...
Perhaps that could be avoided if the committee decided to break with the past and give a real accounting of how it came to its controversial decision. But then again, that might not help either; after its choice of Obama, few people would believe what the committee has to say right now, anyway. - with reporting by Vivienne Walt / Paris...