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...reasons for the relatively close finish - a new hit typically doubles the weekend take of the movie it's 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...
...digital brownshirts” (a term coined by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore) have “Dixie Chicked” many. But with 62 percent of Americans thinking the Iraq War was a mistake in 2006, and George W. Bush’s popularity at the close of his presidency only 22 percent, it now appears that Rene Gonzalez was ahead of his time. While many still morally distinguish Iraq and Afghanistan, Gonzalez’s majority of one in 2004 became the Democratic majority...
...latest quarter ending March 31, Harvard boosted its investments in foreign markets by purchasing almost $50 million worth of shares in an exchange-traded fund tracking South Korean indices, while also deepening investments in China, Mexico, Brazil, and South Africa that now amount to nearly $300 million—close to double the figure in those areas as of Dec. 31.Harvard also purchased over 2 million shares of Vanguard Emerging Markets, bringing the value of that investment to over $54 million, up from the less than $1 million invested there in the previous quarter. The largest holding listed...
...much-argued-over Resolution 205, which states flatly that, "the safest setting for labor, delivery and the immediate post-partum period is in a hospital or a birthing center within a hospital." To ensure your newborn's health, in other words, make sure the highest-tech medicine is close at hand...
...year-old was clearly honored to be invited to the wedding of a couple she has been close to since grade school. A veteran of several opposite-sex weddings, she took this one in stride: "It wasn't really different. Everyone was happy." Four other guests attended - Woodward-Young's two teen-age daughters from her first marriage, her former husband and his wife, who took photos. "We are kind of a funky weird extended family," Woodward-Young explains with a laugh...