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...Bolt, the first Disney animated feature made under the supervision of Pixar creative boss John Lasseter, has a premise straight out of Chihuahua: an adorable, pampered L.A. dog gets dropped into an alien environment and has to find its way back home, learning lessons of friendship, confidence and self-reliance en route. (It's also the premise of 140,000 other movies about animals, kids or hobbits.) Bolt fits this familiar mold without looking moldy. Its visual style is unpretentiously attractive, with a limber graphic line, and there's little showboating in the design or the dialogue. Directors Chris Williams...
...story, though, is high-concept and high-maintenance. In the Bond-worthy opening action scene, Bolt (voiced by John Travolta) is introduced as a Superdog: faster than Speed Racer, more powerful than Benji, able to hold a dangling car between his teeth, plus his gifts of bent-track laser-vision and the amazing thunder bark - all to help his "human," Penny (Miley Cyrus), escape an army of bad guys. He could be the family dog of the Incredibles. What Bolt doesn't know, yet, is that all this mayhem and all his powers are fake. He's the star...
...Dingell, who was elected to Congress in 1955 to fill his father's seat after John Dingell Sr.'s death, has held the chairmanship since 1981. For almost as long, he has been tussling with Waxman on energy and environmental issues. The two battled over not only their beliefs but also their home-state interests; Dingell has been fiercely protective of Detroit's auto industry and the jobs it provides, while Waxman has championed environmental interests. Canny legislators both, they have been able to work together when compromise has served each of their interests, as it did with the Clean...
...Many congressional veterans were surprised when House Democrats, meeting as a caucus, voted 137-122 to oust Michigan's John (the Truck) Dingell, 82, as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and give the post to Waxman. Few jobs in Congress are as powerful; the committee has one of the largest swaths of jurisdiction, encompassing energy, health-care and environmental issues. Waxman's elevation upends one of the most revered principles on Capitol Hill: the seniority system. "It's just been buried," says Representative Charlie Rangel of New York, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee...
...Harare-based political analyst John Makumbe told TIME that the MDC still hopes to force more concessions out of Zanu-PF as the price for joining a government. Unless a government that includes the MDC can be formed in the next few months, most experts agree, Zimbabwe's future looks dire. Without the MDC, "Mugabe won't be able to change anything to avoid disaster," says Sisulu. "He will have to keep ruling through violence." And while he has proved all too willing to unleash his security forces on opposition supporters, at some point the economic collapse could begin...