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...late-night screening of Paranormal Activity in Times Square this past week didn't need gore effects to be scared witless. Yes, they knew it was only a movie - one that, like The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield and plenty others before it, used "found footage" to give a patina of realism to the fanciful events that were dreamed up by writer-director Oren Peli and are endured by actors Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston (using their real names). But when that door moved, the crowd's collective gasp just about sucked all the oxygen out of the theater...
Maybe the prize will give him more power, new muscle to haul unruly nations in line. But peacemaking is more about ingenuity than inspiration, about reading other nations' selfish interests and cynically, strategically exploiting them for the common good. Will it help if fewer countries come to the table hating us? To a point. But it's a starting point, not an end in itself...
...Indeed, with Obama's signature issue of health care reform in the balance and his poll numbers on the decline, a visit to the Southeast Asian city where he lived for four years as a child will hardly give him the boost he needs with the American public. But given his obvious affection for Indonesia, it is not a question of if he will pay a visit, but when. "There were a lot of people planning things but the bottom line is that it was delayed and not cancelled," says business consultant Dennis Heffernan, who is planning to make...
...visit will be his first as president to the country that followed the 2008 elections as if it was one of their own in the race. Observers in Indonesia believe a visit next year will not only give the President more time to spend here with his family, but will allow the two countries to prepare the groundwork for a much-anticipated "comprehensive partnership" that could be announced while he is here. A resumption of the Peace Corps is expected to be announced, along with other promises of financial aid. "This is going to be a new type of relationship...
...political news show on the Lebanese Broadcasting Channel. "People spend years working for peace," says Layal Abou Rahal, an editor at the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Jarida. "What did he do? Let's imagine he will in fact help in the peace process between Israelis and Palestinians. What will they give him as a reward then...