Word: browning
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...replaced - are easy to enumerate. The Da Vinci Code was a publishing phenomenon with the added balm of religious controversy; the movie version earned $77 million its first weekend. Angels, actually a prequel, didn't generate the kind of heat that spurs audiences to see it immediately. Also, Dan Brown, the author of both Da Vinci and Angels, is a powerhouse literary name but not yet a megamovie franchise; Star Trek, the latest in a series of film spin-offs that date back 30 years, has brand recognition few can match. And the target audience for best-selling novels made...
...against five extremely fast crews and that it was going to take an extraordinary race even to medal,” senior co-captain Anna Kendrick said. “To be less than a second behind a national champion crew was really exciting for us.”Brown, Dartmouth and Northeastern rounded out the finishers in the Grand Final. By beating Brown, the No. 4-ranked school in the nation and the No. 1-seeded school going into this event, the Black and White has a strong chance of being in the top 16 to qualify...
...onscreen clumsiness is far from Brown's only problem. The expense claims rumpus couldn't have come at a worse time for the Prime Minister. The country's economy - Brown's ticket into Downing Street two years ago after a largely successful decade as finance minister - has slid into reverse. Success confronting problems on the global stage, most recently at April's productive G-20 summit in London, has sharpened criticism that he's lacking an agenda at home. (When an e-mail discussing smears against senior Conservatives, written by one of Brown's close aides, surfaced days after...
...With few giving him any chance in general elections expected in 12 months, Brown looks fresh out of ideas - and luck. A tabloid newspaper this week published make-up instructions written for the Prime Minister, found among official papers left in the back of a taxi. The brief advised the P.M. on using foundation, concealer, and fake tan. To his credit, though, they didn't end up on expenses...
...Read a TIME cover story on Gordon Brown...