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JONAH: A VEGGIETALES MOVIE. With Jonah, Big Idea Productions, Inc. is out to score—not a whopping box-office coup but a moral victory over decadent American media via biblical values and spiritual uplift. Unflinchingly righteous, this is VeggieTales biggest veggie yet. Archibald Asparagus is the eponymous messenger Jonah, who with his fellow vegetables embarks on the marine adventure of his life. But if air-conditioned theaters couldn’t coax kids out over the summer for TV show-based movies like The Powerpuff Girls and Hey Arnold! The Movie, it’s dubious how Jonah...
...more galling to Pakistan's military regime, whose raison d'etre is either the bogey of war with India or the dream of absorbing Kashmir into Pakistan. If the threat is proved unreal, and the dream a mirage, Pakistan's rulers will have lost their justification for a permanent coup. There is more at stake in Kashmir than Kashmir...
...Salmon, a former Congressman who led the 1998 coup attempt against House Speaker Newt Gingrich, has brushed off barbs likening him to his G.O.P. predecessors but has had a harder time deflecting attention from his wallet. He has received about $150,000 so far this year to lobby Congress for Phoenix civic projects (like the city's proposed light-rail system) that could deprive other Arizona cities of federal funds. "Are you running for Governor, or are you doing business?" asks Cecelia Martinez, director of the state's Clean Elections Institute...
...refrigerators and air conditioners. Meanwhile in the U.K., the government's Energy Saving Trust announced that flooding would cause $345 billion of damage to buildings and farmland as global warming took hold, with the London region particularly at risk. IVORY COAST Moral: Don't Leave Home An attempted coup d'état convulsed one of sub-Saharan Africa's richest but most politically fragile countries while President Laurent Gbagbo was in Italy. Loyalist soldiers killed the man accused of leading the uprising, General Robert Guei, the former military ruler who was himself ousted in a 1999 coup. Heavy fighting began...
...Fabulous, Darling Retailer Harvey Nichols - Harvey Nicks of sitcom Absolutely Fabulous fame - hasn't amused investors lately. So Dickson Poon, who floated 49.9% of the company at $4.20 a share in 1991, is taking it back for $3.87 Chocolate War Truce Activists in Pennsylvania pulled off a surprise coup as the Hershey Trust gave in to local opposition and stopped the sale of the confectioner, despite a bid by Wrigley of $12.5 billion. Discredited Swiss Switzerland's bank secrecy can't hide the problems at Credit Suisse. After shares fell 50% this year, CEO Lukas M?hlemann was forced...