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...monumentally self-assured filmmaker, and a superb pitchman for his own projects, Shyamalan used his Sixth Sense clout to maintain his independence. Aside from making his elaborate movies at home, he'd play power games with the movie brass, allowing an executive just one afternoon to read his new script before returning it to him. That sort of bravado works only as long as the product sells. But when The Lady in the Water belly-flopped with $42 million domestic, Hollywood could finally say no to the wunderkind. The Happening is distributed by 20th Century Fox, but the list...
...Castro - is his democratic legitimacy. Despite his authoritarian bent, Chavez has been fairly elected three times, and he can't afford to forfeit that cachet. That's why he surprised his critics by respecting the will of the electorate when he lost last year's referendum. The need to maintain his democratic credentials is also the reason why, in the face of howls from civil rights groups, he did an about-face on Saturday and promised to soften a recent dictum that would have ramped up Venezuela's intelligence-gathering activities against its own citizens. Chavez acknowledged he could...
This attitude riles advocates for modern contraception, who maintain there is nothing anti-Filipino about birth control. Indeed, a survey commissioned by the Philippine Legislators' Committee for Population and Development found the majority of Filipinos are actually in favor of it. In their 2007 study, 90% of respondents said they'd vote for a political candidate who supported the use of modern contraception. And many women don?t see birth control as anti-Catholic, either. Lourdes Osil, a mother of seven who joined the lawsuit, says family planning does not violate her Catholic beliefs. "I don?t think...
...cost you. Go to a website like GetAFreelancer.com and you'll see dozens of ads placed by spammers and other bad actors, who hire whole teams of people to read and type out CAPTCHAS, all day, by hand, by the thousands. ("How the hell can they still maintain a profit margin?" Von Ahn wonders. "This is amazing...
...order to "maintain public hygiene," no sleeping outdoors...