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...earned only about what Will Smith's I Am Legend did on one day last weekend. Even if you throw in Jamie Foxx's Saudi Arabia-set action epic The Kingdom, the total box office take of the war-on-terror films doesn't match the earnings of, say, Fahrenheit 9/11...
...critic, I give the Iraq films now in release passing marks for good intentions and audiences an incomplete for poor attendance. Although nonfiction directors have tackled the war vigorously, from Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 to Charles Ferguson's No End in Sight, it looks as if we may have to wait for Hollywood's definitive Iraq-war film. But that's the way the movie industry works. In the decade that the U.S. military spent in Vietnam, only a few films surfaced, including John Wayne's bombastic The Green Berets and De Palma's anarchic comedies Greetings...
...more of these extreme conditions in the already dry Southwest as the planet warms. A study led by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., and published in Science last year found that as temperatures increased in the West, which is now 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit (almost 1 degree Celsius) warmer than it was in 1987, so did the length of the wildfire season and the size and duration of the average fire...
...freshman dorms and upperclass Houses was turned on as of earlier this week. “The heat is on in all buildings,” he said. Pacillo said that the heating system is regulated by the outside air temperature. When the air temperature drops below 55 degrees Fahrenheit, the heaters automatically turn on; when the temperature is above 55 degrees, the heaters shut off. “If the temperature outside were 56 degrees, the heaters would not turn on,” he said. Some students said the College’s response to the sudden cold...
...Moore will somehow claim victory. He does it, at the end, by noting that young people, his target audience, voted in record numbers, and that they were the only age group to go for Kerry. That's impressive, Pyrrhically, until you recall that Moore's stated purpose in making Fahrenheit 9/11 was to end the Bush regime. Mission not accomplished...