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...World's Most Influential People" with great pleasure [May 11]. I found the articles fascinating, even poetic at times - until I got to Ann Coulter's essay on Sarah Palin. All of the other writers praise their candidates without disparaging someone else. Coulter, who in this case insults John McCain, seems incapable of such an approach. Melanie Hart, Troy, Mich...
...Frozen Deep was based on the disastrous Franklin Expedition, which furnishes Wanting with a secondary plot (it has three in all). Launched in 1845 under the command of Sir John Franklin, its purpose was to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Franklin's ships were fitted with the bleeding edge of English naval technology, but the Arctic swallowed them and their crews with hardly a trace. Later explorers found evidence that Franklin's men had resorted to cannibalism before they finally died of hunger, disease and exposure...
Obama assembled all the major players - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, GM CEO Fritz Henderson, Michigan Representative John Dingell - some of whom are still locked in lawsuits over California's earlier attempts to pass its own stricter fuel-efficiency standards. (Under the Clean Air Act, the state has the right to implement auto-pollution regulations that are tougher than national laws, provided that the Environmental Protection Agency issues a waiver, which was denied under George W. Bush.) For Obama, the simple fact that these habitually warring parties were willing to come together on the new requirements was as important...
...winsome didn't win the day, and nor did hard-luck stories. The public ruthlessly booted out 2 Grand, a grandfather-granddaughter singing duo, even after 76-year-old John Neill confided that "this is the first time I've felt happy ... since I lost my wife." And Boyle, the bookmakers' favorite and an international talk-show darling since her endearingly awkward audition clip clocked up more than 100 million views on YouTube, lost...
...News was not so good for Terminator Salvation, which lost a steep 62% from last weekend's gross. This fourth episode in the John Connor saga could trace the sorry trajectory of this March's action film, Watchmen, which earned more than half its total domestic take in its first weekend. In plain English, that means the hard-core fans saw it immediately but didn't go back or convince others to buy tickets. It also suggests that certain action franchises do need a star. Given the tarnished fiscal state of the Golden State, Arnold Schwarzenegger may wish he were...