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...khotla was eventually swayed, and the villagers, unable to tolerate the crew's lame attempts at constructing a circle of mud huts, even built the set. On the day of the shoot, hundreds have come to "mourn" at the funeral of the father of the central character, Precious Ramotswe, played faultlessly by R&B singer Jill Scott...
...French Socialist Party official who oversees international affairs. Moscovici warns that Sarkozy is betting on the wrong political horse. "George Bush isn't America," Moscovici told the weekly Journal du Dimanche. "He's a man who is totally rejected today, whose at the end of his mandate - a lame duck - and who shares power with a Democratic Congress. It would be a grave error to demonstrate ostensible friendship, and open complicity...
...this in perspective: the first Rush Hour was a pretty good movie, the second one pretty lame. The threequel is somewhere in between: nothing special but with a high amiability quotient. The two stars know they click; it's no crime for them to extend and exploit that good vibe one more time...
...switch places for a day? You know, I go fly around the Caribbean, and you work my lame-o day job?-Stephen Feinberg, OAKLAND, CALIF.Switch places for a day? Well, I don't know. I got it pretty good. I never had a real day job. I consider this a summer job, but it has lasted quite a long time. I would suggest you go out and look for a summer job. Maybe you will have as much luck...
...Then check out his words in the past. Bloomberg is a lame-duck Mayor, and he's pointed out several times that the national attention he gets over his Presidential prospects helps him move his agenda on guns, education, poverty, housing and global warming. It also gives him a national platform to complain about partisan gridlock and the power of special interests in Washington, as he did in TIME's current cover story. "If they speculate about the Presidency and it helps, I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage...