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...prequel to three Marvel hits, with Jackman serving this time as star and producer, grossed a burly $87 million at the North American box office. McConaughey's Ghosts of Girlfriends Past earned $15.3 million. The totals nearly replicated those of last year's first May weekend, when Marvel's Iron Man took in $98.6 million to $14.8 million for the Patrick Dempsey romantic comedy Made of Honor. Shrugging off tepid reviews, Wolverine proved that Hugh is huge, movie-starwise, as long as he carries cutlery between his knuckles. In its first two days' release, it easily outperformed the total domestic...
...public education system, specifically, the immense challenge of maintaining control of huge classes of unruly children. "Most children in my school are criminal-minded," says Dr. S.C. Sharma, the principal of a government school in South Delhi. "We have caught them stealing fans from classrooms and even the iron grills from the windows. How do you discipline such kids?" In Sharma's school the teacher-student ratio is 1:63, compared with a recommended ratio of 1:35. (Read "How India's Young and Restless Are Changing Its Politics...
ATLANTA Staub's cast-iron American square grill ($112.50) is a summer staple...
...Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart, who makes a guest appearance here). It's not surprising, then, that the movie has the harried feel of a personnel officer with too many people to manage, too many plates to keep spinning. Wolverine lacks the simple narrative drive and character pizzazz of Iron Man, the Marvel movie that launched last year's summer blockbuster season...
...TIME's top 10 films of 2008: Iron Man, Speed Racer and the rest