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...Magnet for Tourism It's customary now for cities to use the arts as an engine of growth. Dallas is in the process of completing a whole arts district. Abu Dhabi is planning a vast one. But long before there was a Bilbao effect - the revitalization of that scruffy Basque port by Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum there - New York had learned to use a cultural institution for urban renewal. In the 1940s and '50s, large areas of Manhattan's Upper West Side were slums, the turf of the warring street gangs that Leonard Bernstein made famous in West Side...
...Romney? Well, I had to set up criteria and that was: First, where are they on these basic issues? The border itself: will you secure it with a fence and whatever kind of resources that we have? No. 2: will you go after employers? Because that's the real magnet that pulls so many people here. Will you not give amnesty? Will you say that if they're here that they will have to return home? Now, [Romney has] got a plan that gives them a little more latitude than I would have. It's still a good plan...
...Will Smith used to be able to crack a smile, and to crack up the audience with a joke, a silly song or his elastic, eloquent body English. Lately, though, the most reliable box-office magnet in Hollywood hasn't given himself or his fans much to laugh at. He was a tough, emotionally constipated cop chasing androids in I, Robot, and an ambitious man who loses his job, his home and his wife - everything but his young son - in The Pursuit of Happyness. Except for a romantic holiday in Hitch, the one-time Fresh Prince has become a stolid...
...George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Johnny Deep (Sweeney Todd), Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts (both for Charlie Wilson's War), Jodie Foster (The Brave One) and John Travolta (Hairspray). Angelina Jolie couldn't attract paying customers to A Mighty Heart, but her allure as a good-deed-doing camera magnet is undiminished. She'll be there as a Best Actress nominee. Brad will have to come as Angelina's guest, however; the Pitt bull was snubbed for Jesse James - not to mention the outrage of ignoring Ocean's Thirteen...
...Some are even starting to consider it the Curse of the 'Canes - an ominous karma hanging over one of the nation's most brashly successful (five national championships since 1983) but controversial big-time college football programs, one that has long seemed a magnet for guns and trouble. "Miami's problems are hardly isolated among large college football programs, but unfortunately these incidents do seem a reflection of [the UM football] legacy," says noted sports sociologist Richard Lapchick of the University of Central Florida in Orlando and author of the just published The 100 Pioneers: African-Americans Who Broke Color...