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...batch of un-reviewed movies—including stinkers like the Comedy Central spin-off “Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector” and the Mo’Nique star vehicle “Phat Girlz”—have learned an expensive lesson: never judge a movie by its trailer. Predictably, the studios feign innocence. In an interview with Associated Press film writer David Germain, Dennis Rice—Disney’s publicity chief—argues that studios are looking out for their audiences’ best interests...
...Friends with benefits sounds good on paper, but never works in practice. You know what else sounds good on paper? Communism." —Dr. Drew Pinsky, at last week’s Trojan College Media Roundtable, attended by FM crack reporter Lena Chen. Thanks for the civics lesson, Pinsky...
...would offer graduates the equivalent of paid internships. The global marketplace is changing rapidly, and without employment flexibility, France will not be able to compete. People of my generation in the U.S. learned that we're the only ones who can secure our future. That would be a good lesson for French students to start learning today. Carolyn Davenport-Moncel Courbevoie, France...
...cause?and the overnight sympathy of much of France. Alarmed, Premier Georges Pompidou, acting as [President Charles] De Gaulle's regent while the general was off on an ill-timed state visit to Rumania, called off the police, let the students roam freely through the Latin Quarter. Then the lesson of the Left Bank dawned on the leadership of France's workers: that a few thousand students had forced the Gaullist regime to back down. Within hours, a spontaneous reaction swept all across France...
...have improved significantly: "China is more open now and is more friendly to the U.S." Still, the relationship remains complicated, he adds, noting that many Chinese resent America's "bullying" of other countries: "What happened to the U.S. on 9/11 is terrible, but we feel like it was a lesson America had to learn about how they need to respect others...