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...movie year finally begin! After nearly two months of Avatar taking on new challengers each week and demolishing them all with the ease of Ken Jennings during his Jeopardy! run, the all-time box office champ slipped to fourth place, as a trio of new pictures, each aimed at a specific part of the mass audience, attracted sizable crowds. The $193 million predicted for the Friday-to-Sunday frame is the most ever for a President's Day weekend. (Read a review of Valentine...
...last year, 22 of the panel witnesses have reported being harassed, according to Ken Wafula, director of the Center for Human Rights and Democracy. In early January, the Nairobi Star newspaper reports, men driving a Toyota Prado left an envelope with 3,000 shillings for one witness. The note said he should use the money to buy his own coffin. Another report said that police - many of whom have also been implicated in the violence - killed a man when he would not reveal the location of his cousin, who had testified before the panel. (See pictures of Kenya's post...
...safety also hinges on encouraging if-you-see-something-say-something vigilance on the part of passengers. And on that score, the overzealous regulations might have been just the ticket. "It's a knee-jerk reaction to get public attention, perhaps. And that's quite a good thing," says Ken Button, director of George Mason University's Center for Transportation, Policy, Operations and Logistics. Ultimately, he notes, it was the intervention of fellow passengers, along with a faulty trigger device, that brought Abdulmutallab down. "We do have to some extent [to] rely on individuals," says Button. "They should be reminded...
...KEN WESTMORELAND, FUKUOKA, JAPAN...
...council's most astute political observers and best-prepared members. She regularly sparred with a fellow city councilmember, Monica Conyers - wife of Democratic Congressman John Conyers Jr. - who recently pleaded guilty to bribery charges. She's also had her differences with the current city-council president - Ken Cockrel Jr., her own stepson. He recently called her walkout from the city council's chambers during the strip-club debate "the height of irresponsibility" and said it "shows a high level of disrespect for the people that put elected officials in office." (See TIME's 2009 Person of the Year: Federal Reserve...