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...full four-day weekend, taking in a record $66.9 million, according to Box Office Mojo. Percy Jackson held second with $38.8 million; The Wolfman was third with $36.5 million. Avatar held strong in fourth, slipping only 2% from last weekend for $30 million. The James Cameron eco-epic has now earned $667.6 million, the all-time leader in current dollars and, in real dollars, is now 17th on the all-time list, between two Steven Spielberg adventures: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jurassic Park...
...this rate, the flinty toughness that President Obama has tweaked Washington for lacking when it comes to winter weather may soon be forged through sheer necessity. Another epic blizzard hammered Washington on Wednesday morning, paralyzing anew a city that was still struggling to dig out from a storm that dumped some two feet of snow on the nation's capital over the weekend. The frigid blast, which is expected to blanket Washington's beleaguered residents with another 10 inches or more, left travelers stranded, shuttered airports, snarled rail and road traffic and brought the federal government (yet again...
...exit China after discovering that some of its users’ accounts had been hacked by the Chinese government. Google’s declaration was quite weighty, considering China’s large economy and potentially huge market for the company. Most importantly, it brought to light the epic battle for cyber-security between one of the world’s largest technological companies and one of the world’s most secretive regimes. After deciding to remain in China but stay wary of censorship and human rights abuses, Google has called upon the National Security Administration...
...daughter's killers, tells somebody it's the moment of truth. "You had better decide," he says, "whether you're hangin' on the cross or bangin' in the nails." Ouch. It's a reminder that Gibson, the movie star, is also Gibson, the director of the polarizing religious epic The Passion of the Christ, in which his one onscreen appearance showed him driving the first nail into Jesus' palm...
...wayward career as one of Hollywood's top moneymakers. He fronted a couple of burly action-film franchises (three splendid Mad Max movies; four shoddy, popular Lethal Weapons). Ten of his films earned more than $100 million from 1989 to 2002, back when that was real money. His Scots epic Braveheart won him Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director. That was just Gibson's second film as director; his third, The Passion of the Christ, in 2004, was the all-time top-grossing film in both the R-rated and foreign-language (Aramaic, if you recall) categories...