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Having achieved its goal of fleecing the public on a summer weekend, Transformers 2 will pass through the entertainment alimentary system and be forgotten, except by the filmmakers and their accountants, until 2012, when another installment will rise to repeat the process. The forlorn minority of critics hope that, sometime before then, The Hurt Locker will have found the audience it deserves...
...text message on Thursday afternoon that gave Holley the first hint of bad news - a note saying Jackson had been rushed to the hospital. Neither he nor the crew knew how to react to the uncertainty, so they did what they always did - they went in to rehearse. Except this time, as fans all over the world from Los Angeles to New York City to Tokyo to Buenos Aires played his music, sang his songs and emulated his dance in tribute, Holley says the crew couldn't bring themselves to touch the music...
...when did you last read about the Daddy Wars? Men compete against one another in every arena except this one, maybe out of indifference, but more often out of humility. Most fathers I know make fun of themselves, and of the mystery of it all, as though content that being a parent is a skill you practice but never master. There is much doubt, but less guilt. Apple calls American Fatherhood "the longest-running identity crisis of all time," but largely refrains from offering fellow new fathers any advice--though in the course of his journey, he encounters so much...
...According to Dieter Krüger, a military historian at the Institute for Military History in Potsdam, it was only after France left NATO in 1966 that Germany's military role became stronger. "In the past, there was no idea of deploying German troops abroad, except in specific cases, like helping in natural disasters," he says. "Up until the end of the Cold War, Germany had a well-trained army, but it was more used to bureaucratic procedures...
Sanford, Governor Mark • hiking the Appalachian Trail is first offered by spokesman for as explanation for mysterious days-long absence of ("He's an avid outdoorsman. Nobody's ever accused our governor of being conventional"), except then the car of is found parked at the airport because it turns out the location of was actually Argentina, where an e-mail-fueled affair was being sadly broken off by in Buenos Aires, so, to sum up, another week, another would-be 2012 Republican presidential candidacy in self-induced shambles, though of course - OOPS! - Fox News initially put a (D) after...