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...White House staff position—the White House social secretary—is simply product of another vice: the delusion harbored by Washington media types that the trifling goings-on of their city matter to those who live beyond the Beltway. This media elite is easily distracted by bright, shiny objects, and the fact that anyone outside the White House has ever heard of Desiree Rogers is an indictment of the media’s skewed priorities...
...could become the anchor for a neighborhood renewal. Several developers announced plans to construct new apartments; Whole Foods, a harbinger of upward mobility, purchased a nearby parcel. In recent years, sightings of jellyfish, cormorants, bass and even a harp seal were celebrated as signs that the canal had a bright future. Some adventurous souls, seeking to highlight the canal's potential, even started a canoeing club. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...showed unexpected appeal and did the best of the new releases at the domestic box office. Its $21.8 million edged The Bounty Hunter's $21 million, according to official studio estimates. With a teacher's-pet A-minus in CinemaScore's poll of exiting moviegoers, the comedy about a bright boy's passage through sixth grade should prove best in class for youngsters over the next few weeks and do well enough to green-light a sequel. (Kinney has published four books in the series, with a fifth due out this year.) (See the top 10 movie wimps...
Freshman Brandyn Curry was 3-of-6 from the field, including a pair of three-pointers, but the lone bright spot for Harvard was the play of wing Christian Webster. The rookie led his team with a career-high of 24 points, including 6-of-6 from three-point range...
Wasikowska, the Australian who was superb as a suicidal teen on the HBO series In Treatment, brings a soft-focus regality to her role. Emotionally, though, her Alice is a bright child, a preteen in a late teen's body, as if she had suddenly sprouted by nibbling a magic cake. Her Wonderland dream is an escape from social strictures back to the freedom of childhood, and not imprisonment but liberation...