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...sleekly modern costumes and Jules Vernean spaceships. The film's climactic battle, between two imposing CGI ice bears, is a literal jaw-dropper. And its two lead performances made me hope there will be sequels - even if Weitz can't infuse this first episode with the animating spark of grand-scale moviemaking...
...Betamax was a portal to another world.") Next came rock. As a student at Wheaton, he fronted a band that seemed poised to break nationally. When it didn't, he attended Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif., and apprenticed at a megachurch before founding Mars Hill just outside Grand Rapids. The town is notoriously well churched, but Bell saw an untapped audience: some were his music fans, others Christians left cold by traditional services. "A hundred people a day were calling and saying, 'Dude! Give us the real thing.' I was like, If someone could speak to these people...
Layering one small success on the next, Huckabee made an Internet sensation out of his endorsement by TV tough guy Chuck Norris. Then Huckabee's speech to a gathering of social conservatives in Washington was a grand slam over the right-field fence. After a year of hard work, he woke up an overnight sensation in the polls. An audience in Newton, Iowa, this week numbered closer to 200 than two dozen, and Huckabee's words were being recorded by journalists from Britain, Ireland and Spain. "I'm a pretty happy guy," he told the gathering...
...Pakistan, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty. He was 78. Maybury-Lewis was a leader in the field of anthropology specializing in the study of indigenous people in the Americas. His work concentrated in Brazil and was recognized in 1997 with the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil’s highest academic award. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Oxford University in 1952, followed by his Ph.D. in anthropology four years later. He observed the cultural survival of tribal people and ethnic minorities, authoring several books...
...Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office said it found no evidence that Lee, a former Seoul mayor and the presidential front-runner for the conservative Grand National Party (GNP), participated in alleged fraudulent financial practices including stock-price manipulation in partnership with Korean-American executive Kim Kyung Joon...