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...weekend that saw about a 35% jump in ticket sales from last Easter, the mass audience gifted the new releases with nice, colorful eggs. One-man indie conglomerate writer-director-star Tyler Perry reunited with Janet Jackson for Why Did I Get Married Too, which pulled in $30.2 million - far above the three-day tally for the 2007 original. This is the fourth $30 million-plus opening for a Perry movie, though the revenue usually drops quickly in succeeding weeks. (His last four films earned at least 45% of their total take in the first three days.) Spending just...
...iPad arrived at 10:30 a.m. E.T. on the day it was supposed to, Saturday, April 3. I remember the time because I had just looked impatiently at my clock, wondering, Where is it?, when the UPS man buzzed my doorbell. Perhaps it wasn't quite like the birth of a child - this baby has got to perform tricks immediately, and there's precious little time to grow...
...you’re a gambling man, you might be better off taking your money to Vegas than putting it on admission to any Ivy League school...
...faced since the throes of the U.S. clerical sex abuse scandal in 2002. A new deluge of priest-pedophile stories, mostly in Europe, has cast another Good Friday pall over the resurrection celebration. This time some of the hierarchical cover-up may have even involved, if only indirectly, the man who would become the current Pope, Benedict XVI. And the Catholic Church's defensive response (as persecuted as the Jews?) has once again made it look like a dark fraternity in a Dan Brown novel instead of a luminous shepherd of souls, a self-interested corporation instead of the selfless...
...town of Redencao is a particularly bloody battlefield. It is the home to powerful cattle barons who are in constant conflict with reform activists. In 2005, an American nun, Dorothy Stang, who supported land reform, was murdered. Last Thursday, as a local court postponed the third trial of a man accused of killing her, unknown gunmen shot dead Pedro Alcantara de Souza, another activist for land reform in Redencao. Police believe Souza was targeted because he works for the Federation of Family Farmers, a group that defends the rights of small producers and landowners in southern Para state. (From TIME...