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...dismiss as unlawful a total of 16 charges, ranging from money-laundering to racketeering, some 1,000 supporters staged a noisy rally in front of a giant TV screen outside the court in Pietermaritzburg. The hearing is expected to last two days, but the case itself will most likely drag on well beyond next April's elections - in which Zuma, having trounced current president Thabo Mbeki in a head-to-head race for leadership of the ruling African National Congress, looks primed to be elected president. (The ANC faces no serious challenge to its electoral majority...
...Johnson (Kevin Costner) is a loser, a wastrel, a jerk--and not one of the purportedly adorable kind in the Judd Apatow movies. The stupor Bud drinks himself into each evening leaves him barely able to drag himself to work the next morning, let alone care for his young daughter Molly (Madeline Carroll). His employer has been "insourcing" Mexicans who'll work for less money and firing hapless guys like Bud. It's no wonder that feeling disenfranchised, disaffected and perennially dissed, he belongs to what would be by far the largest U.S. political party: the We Don't Voters...
...from a real one, the sort of war fought with bullets and bombs. Not so long ago, doomsayers predicted a rising China or India would lead to certain conflict with established powers. Instead, both countries are active players in a system that, creaking though it may be, has helped drag tens of millions of people out of poverty. Sure, we disagree. But we're doing it in meeting rooms in Switzerland, not across some corpse-littered field...
...ballad, the sweet harmonies.'' For Express Yourself, she's dolled up in royal blue bell-bottoms and a frizz wig, to pay homage to the gaudy innocence of the Cyndi Lauper era. The Wayback Machine keeps spinning until we are in Weimar * Berlin, with Madonna in Dietrich drag warbling Teutonic twaddle: ''Like a wer- gin, touched for the werry vurst time.'' She is Carmen Miranda (Going Bananas), Gene Kelly (La Isla Bonita), the Brigitte Helm robot goddess from the silent film Metropolis. She saves her best anachronistic joke for last: the steamy Justify My Love is performed in stately cadence...
...sanded and painted and caulked and coated that boat, I even injected her timbers with chemicals to stop the softening. But nothing beats the rot. One morning in August I couldn't drag her anymore. She buried herself right there on the beach. Broke up under her own weight. The sand really did close up over her. I found the mound it made years later and dug. You could still smell the wet wood in the discolored sand underneath. But there was no boat there any more. Reduced to tiny particles. It's what happens to man-made things, around...