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Lying, Capitalism and Whip It were bested not only by the zombies but also by a CGI barrage of flying food and kids' playthings. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs continued its robust run, passing the $80 million mark on its third weekend. It came in second, immediately followed by Disney's 3-D release of those seminal Pixar buddy films, the 1995 Toy Story and the 1999 Toy Story 2. Playing at jacked-up prices on 1,745 screens, the Toy tandem earned $12.5 million to add to the $847 million (about $1.1 billion today) the two movies amassed...
...Palestinian territories and the Mahdi Army in Iraq. But some analysts think that growing commercial interests may have taken the edge off the guards' religious zealotry, which, if true, might make them open to dialogue one day. "They are pretty practical; they use ideology as a tool," says Mark Fowler of Persia House, which monitors Iranian developments. "They support the Islamic revolution because it has been good to them, but they are not raving fanatics." Says Hillary Mann Leverett, a former director of Iran and Afghanistan affairs in George W. Bush's National Security Council: "These people are not just...
...mates back in newcastle, where he was born, and at Eton, where he was schooled, knew him as Mark, a soccer fanatic who later scored first-class honors at Oxford. Today, Thailand's urbane Prime Minister, Abhisit Vejjajiva, says he dreamed of leading his Southeast Asian nation ever since he was a little boy, but he still seems more comfortable roaming the corridors of international diplomacy than engaging in the rough-and-tumble politics of his homeland. Just days ago, the 45-year-old economist headed to New York City to hobnob with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly...
...quick to take credit for, there's no doubt Thailand is fraying at the edges. On Sept. 19, two days before the PM jetted off to the U.N., more than 20,000 antigovernment demonstrators bedecked in their signature red shirts flooded the Thai capital from rural areas to mark the third anniversary of a military coup against their spiritual leader, exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The same day, nationalist yellow-clad protesters, who had helped pave Abhisit's path to power, clashed violently with villagers near the Cambodian border, where a border dispute simmers near an ancient temple complex...
...sure, it wasn't Abhisit who signed off on the sentencing. But royalists are among his greatest supporters, and publicly criticizing such punishments might be political suicide for Abhisit. A chap named Mark would have had a hard time explaining to his friends back in Oxford how all this fits into the modern Thai democracy he says he's trying to build...