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...Nash salary, is suing Focus Features for $10 million, alleging that it tricked him into accepting low pay for his role as a rancher by downplaying the movie's moneymaking potential. Neither his lawyers nor Focus would comment. But in his complaint, Quaid is described as an "instantly recognizable household name." The film's sheep must feel duped too. All those glamour shots, and they didn't even get the guild minimum...
...Embracing Family is the story of Shunsuke Miwa, a 45-year-old Tokyo academic whose marriage, household and sanity are buffeted by unwelcome winds, most of them from the U.S. Trouble beckons from the novel's opening lines: "Ever since Michiyo had become their maid, the Miwa household looked worse than ever. Shunsuke, the man of the house, was not pleased. The living room was a mess from the night before, and Michiyo, instead of straightening it up, was having tea in the kitchen with his wife, Tokiko, talking and laughing...
...Thursday afternoon, and the aisles at the new Wal-Mart in Shanghai are about as packed as they can get. The food sections are jammed, as are electronics and household goods. Most of the products that fill Wu Jingqing's shopping cart are made in China. But not all of them. In the DVD and CD sections, Wu looks for a children's movie for her 6-year-old. This is the real thing she's buying?a DVD of Beauty and the Beast priced at $1.85 that is absolutely, positively not one of the pirated versions for which China...
...most- trafficked spot on the Internet; Facebook is No. 7, right behind Google. MySpace is open to anyone with an e-mail address; Facebook requires members to be affiliated with a college or a high school, which is why it's the preferred virtual reality in my household...
...East. Another is the spectacle of a Republican Party seriously under the sway of Christians who believe in biblical inerrancy, a reading of Scripture that inspires them to apocalyptic obsessions with that same part of the world. Finally, there's the headlong growth of American debt of all kinds--household spending, a massive trade gap and a federal deficit that leaves American policy susceptible to the foreigners who buy the securities that keep the U.S. government afloat, and who could sink it with the decision to stop buying. His analysis sometimes depends on strained emphases, and his career record...