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...movies borrow from old movies every day of the week. It's an acceptable practice we describe as homage, a word derived from the French. From Paris With Love, a blithely violent film derived from something purporting to be a story idea of Luc Besson's - more likely the idle firing of a pop-culture soaked synapse - goes so deep into the territory of borrowing that it leaves respectable homage far behind. Directed by Pierre Morel (Taken), this pickpocket of a movie flashes open its coat to proudly display all its swiped goodies...
...made a mistake, she seems to conclude, it's that she was too independent, too capable, and gave her husband too much license. The day after the birth of their fourth son, she had an operation to have her tubes tied. With her consent, he did not accompany her to the hospital, to the consternation of the nursing staff. "I suppose you could say that women are built for sacrifice," she writes...
...problem is that Wall Street and Washington appear to have very different definitions of what is proprietary trading. Goldman and others are defining proprietary trading as the day-to-day money these firms risk in the markets, buying and selling stocks and bonds. Volcker seems to want to limit not just this trading but also the big long-term bets banks make on real estate, mortgages and other securities...
After the Christmas Day incident over Detroit, the decision to interrogate Abdulmutallab not as an enemy combatant but as a civilian - he was read his Miranda rights - was made by Attorney General Eric Holder. After weeks of political sniping, the Department of Justice on Wednesday released a sharply worded letter from Holder to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defending the decisions made in Detroit, saying that they were "fully consistent" with policies and practices of the department, the FBI and the government as a whole. Taking full responsibility for the decision to hold and indict Abdulmutallab in the federal court...
...country with the world's biggest HIV/AIDS population, currently numbering more than 4 million. Zuma's behavior has "set us back at least a decade in the fight against HIV/AIDS," said a stern-faced Helen Zille, leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance Party. In an editorial, the Business Day newspaper worried that Zuma's casual attitude to marriage may carry over to his view of government. "If the president is unable to respect social boundaries such as those created through marriage, how can he be trusted to respect the boundaries erected in terms of the national constitution's checks...