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...navigating between two ideas of Russia: its former Soviet self and its current shadow of that former self - a cartoonish, hopelessly upside-down mythology versus a dispiriting reality. Russia will not transcend this dichotomy until it begins building a truly original future instead of trying to cobble together a distant past...
...Zippity Doo Dah" sounds more dreary than cheery as it loops through a distant sound system in the near vacant parking lot of Hong Kong Disneyland's multi-billion-dollar theme park. It's 2 p.m. on Sunday, a peak hour for family fun, but Hong Kong's Magical Kingdom is a little short on enchanted subjects. The fifth branch of the Happiest Place on Earth has been criticized for being too small and offering too few rides, but the The Walt Disney Company hopes to inject a little fairy dust into the place by adding a hitherto missing ingredient...
...from 1,829,710 overall votes. (Finalists are rated from 1 for least influential to 100 for most influential; users can vote as often as they like.) The 2007 winner Rain finished second with an influence rating of 68 from 1,491,910 votes, while Colbert came in a distant third with a 65 rating from 853,004. (Click here for complete results...
...which Rick Davis, the campaign manager for John McCain, sat down to appraise the crowd. The Jonas Brothers, still looking lost and worried, showed up with their hulking bodyguard, while CIA director Michael Hayden, who is responsible for sending secret forces to do nasty things in distant countries, mingled with no apparent security...
...visited psych facilities and I liked Sandy - I didn't want him in one. No, he didn't remember being on the floor and, yes, he was foggy with details of time. From his first day post-op, he seemed to regard the hip surgery as something in his distant past. But it's so easy to lose track of time. He was good on most everything else - or was he? He was a little wacky the way he went off on stories, but he really wasn't any wackier than so many other people his age - and those people...