Word: ender
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...saying that The Ugly Truth is a career ender for Heigl. Indeed, as the first romantic comedy in wide release since Sandra Bullock's The Proposal five weeks ago, the movie will attract its share of dating couples and single women. But if you're looking for a rom-com with a higher IQ and an almost obsessive aim to charm its audience, you'd do better with (500) Days of Summer, which should soon get to a theater near you, than this (500) ways of abasing Katherine Heigl...
Orson Scott Card Card is the author of Magic Street, Ender's Game and the Women of Genesis series Tyler Perry's plays and movies speak from and to the black community, but his message reaches far beyond. Starting with nothing, he built his empire on faith, hope and loyalty; his Madea keeps us sane by blurting out the secret thoughts of civilized people...
...Jewish citizens and calls for the boycotting of Jewish stores in some provincial cities, in response to the incidents in Gaza, have set off alarm bells ringing in the Jewish community here, which at 300,000 is the largest in Latin America. "It's very worrying," says Aida Ender, who migrated with her parents from Europe escaping from the Holocaust 60 years ago and who is part of an e-mail chain that reports on anti-Semitic activity among other survivors. "In the smaller cities of the provinces they are painting swastikas and calling for boycotts of Jewish shops...
...these fates--defeat, resignation or expulsion--would be an ironic career ender for the 40-year Washington veteran whose control of the federal purse strings once made his colleagues practically genuflect in his presence. Longtime friend Jack Roderick, who practiced law with Stevens 40 years ago, sounded subdued at his Anchorage home the day of the verdict. "It's just sad on a personal level," said Roderick, who believes his old friend is innocent. "No question, he showed bad judgment to get associated with a guy like Bill Allen. He got sloppy...
...never got heated," says another Obama adviser, "but these issues are tough. Abortion is going to come up. Three or four times, in fact." But while the topic of abortion is often a conversation ender or results in a terse decision to "agree to disagree," this group wanted to get at real answers, asking Obama to explain how he thought through the issue as a Christian. They also talked about poverty, health care and Darfur, among other concerns. "When he talked about trying to bring people together on poverty or abortion reduction," says one participant, "there were...