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...this sort of comedy is not to hit the bull's-eye with every gag but to establish a genial connection between the star and his audience. That's Ferrell's main achievement during this hot run of his. Since his first smash, the 2003 Elf (still his highest grosser), he has kept busy and lucky: building a succession of hits, dabbling in the higher-IQ type of comedy (Stranger Than Fiction), cameoing in his friends' films, occasionally lending his luster to indies nobody sees. One of these, Winter Passing, grossed all of $101,228. But that's just...
...also getting incredibly expensive. Last June a prototype of Newson's aluminum Lockheed Lounge, perhaps the most iconic piece in the post-1985 contemporary market, fetched $968,000 at Sotheby's in New York City--the highest price ever paid for the work of a living designer. According to James Zemaitis, director of 20th century design at Sotheby's, the average price for a piece at the auction house's December show, the biggest of the year, was $30,000. But based on the current interest in the market, Zemaitis estimates that over the next few years a rare piece...
What did Klein mean by arguing that the leading Republican candidates, with their multiple marriages, "live like liberals"? In 2004 the 13 states with the highest rates of divorce were red. The nine states with the lowest divorce rates were blue. Those Republican candidates Klein spoke of were living as typical conservatives--they marry, and marry often. William Ortenberg, BENICIA, CALIF...
Number of murders per every 100,000 people in Nevada, which has been ranked, for the fourth year in a row, as the state with the highest murder rate in the country. The national average...
Skocpol’s climb to the highest level of Harvard leadership has been defined by controversy...