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...that's where Winslet's identification with them ends. Playing The Reader's Hanna was, she says, "like staring down a long, dark tunnel and searching for a fleck of light at the end, but there f___ing isn't one. There was nothing of her that I could relate to. Just nothing." When Daldry approached her about replacing Nicole Kidman, who had left the project in January 2008 after becoming pregnant, "I was concerned about whether I was skilled enough," Winslet says. The nudity required for the film's sex scenes didn't unsettle her - though she now says...
...Obama Administration rolled out its much awaited foreclosure-prevention plan on Wednesday, saying it could help as many as 7 million to 9 million homeowners meet their mortgage payments. In contrast to last week's detail-light financial-rescue blueprint, the multipronged policy to shore up the housing market, announced by the President on a trip to foreclosure-riddled Phoenix, was packed with specifics. Key components include modifying the terms of delinquent loans, refinancing underwater mortgages and plowing more money into the federal housing agencies in order to keep mortgage rates...
...other factor that is undermining PC sales is that they are too well built. A typical Intel processor that is two years old has more power than almost anyone needs. Laptops made two years ago were light and had impressive battery life. The screen resolution from most machines bought in 2006 is fine for watching online videos or DVDs. And, PCs used to come with Window XP, which is still preferred to the current Microsoft product, Vista...
...Israeli government claim that its Defense Forces "is an ethical army" in light of such atrocities? Israel clearly timed its attacks to coincide with the vacuum of power between U.S. Presidents, banking on our indifference. And to our shame, their bet paid off, for they've again gotten away with it. Tamra Fallman, ITHACA...
...followed his disappearance, looking for Fawcett practically became a fad. One would-be rescuer, an English movie actor named Albert de Winton, was found by some Indians years later "floating, naked and half-mad, in a canoe." (They promptly killed him.) In 1979, Fawcett's signet ring came to light in a shop in Brazil. The man himself never...