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...fancy format and charging more for it. Moviegoers certainly paid Lexus prices to see the Cameron vehicle this weekend. A ticket for one adult at an IMAX 3-D performance of Avatar at Manhattan's Lincoln Square 13 costs $18.50 (plus $2 if you order through Fandango). Yet, even with higher admission fees, Avatar took in only half of what New Moon, the second episode in The Twilight Saga, did a month ago in its first weekend. Indeed, New Moon earned the same as Avatar's entire weekend take in its first Fri. night. (See 10 things you need...
...four years, a song by the newly minted winner of The X Factor, Britain's wildly popular version of American Idol. Indeed, the chances of any act upsetting X Factor creator and judge Simon Cowell's latest protégé has been so unlikely that bookmakers wouldn't even offer odds on it. Until...
...lyric sung by an X Factor winner.) And Morter was quietly confident because he's tried this before: last year, he attempted to usurp X Factor winner Alexandra Burke by driving Rick Astley's 1987 hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" back up the charts. It didn't even break...
...still considers the LTTE a threat. "Even in Colombo there are [still] about 20 LTTE suicide cadres," he says. "They are waiting for the leadership, the guidance, the orders from top." But burnishing his security acumen and resting on his military accomplishments might not be enough to assure Fonseka an electoral victory. Many Sri Lankan voters have moved on to more immediate concern - steeply rising inflation and jobs threatened by a deep global recession and a downturn in major export earners including tea and the garment industry. Fonseka had little to say about economic policy other than to promise "development...
...surrender. "This is well known to all those who were there in the field," Fonseka said. "[The Defenwe Secretary] was supposed to have said, 'Whether anybody comes with white flags or no, finish off everybody.' I was the Army Commander, they never passed that message to me, never even consulted me. I only came to know this after two days after everything was over. And I never gave any instructions about the white flags." Fonseka told TIME that, during a recent visit to the U.S., immigration authorities had attempted to interview him about alleged war crimes committed by the Defense...