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...Though fewer studio films were released in Jan.-Apr. 2009, the North American box-office numbers rose 16%, and attendance 14%. As Gitesh Pandya notes on boxofficeguru.com, "the number of $20M+ openers rose from 11 last year to 18 this year while the amount of films crossing the $100M mark skyrocketed from just one in 2008 to six in the current year." Pandya points out that the summer biggies should benefit from the success of off-season fare, since moviegoers get bombarded with previews of coming attractions, the previews often tailored to the genre of the picture playing. No warm...
...were lucky enough to come out and have the race we did.”Harvard’s undefeated first varsity boat staved off a quick start by the Huskies and pulled away in the opening minutes to a two-seat lead at the 250 meter mark. By the time the crews reached the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, the Crimson had a clear advantage and used the remaining time to expand its lead, finishing the 2,000-meter race in 6:10.7, while the Huskies came in at 6:21.2.“It was a pretty stiff headwind today...
...failure, though not the central one, of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which opened yesterday to largely libelous reviews, that the star stays dressed for nearly the first hour. In this update of A Christmas Carol (drably directed by Mean Girls' Mark Waters, written by the guys who did last winter's insufferable holiday comedy Four Christmases), McConaughey plays Connor Mead, a glamour photographer with an eye for philandering. After breaking up with three girls "in bulk," over a video conference call, he goes to his brother's wedding weekend, re-wounding his old inamorata (Jennifer Garner) while causing about...
...fully expect that our well-financed adversaries, will take whatever steps they feel they need to take that they think might defeat our mechanisms?both above and below the ground," says Mark Borkowski, a retired Air Force colonel who is now executive director of the Department of Homeland Security's Secure Border Initiative, which oversees the physical and virtual fences on the Mexico border. "We are seeing all kinds of technologies that these people are using to get around some of the fences we are putting in place...
...avoid) overcrowded and understaffed public clinics and hospitals, where patients sometimes have to bring their own medicines and bandages if they want treatment. It's one reason partly why Mexicans tend to wait too long to seek treatment - another reason Mexico seemed slow off the swine-flu mark - and why they tend to rely on home-made treatments instead of doctor's orders...