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...these recent movies, Smith's stature has kept him from connecting with anyone but his own son (in The Pursuit of Happyness, also directed by Muccino) and the mass of moviegoers. Here, though - and this is what lifts Seven Pounds above other Smith dramas - he does tentatively allow another adult onto his solitary planet. Dawson, glammed down in hospital gowns and an invalid's grayish sheen, is knowing, giving and (her word and ours) hot. She's splendid at showing how someone who's tucked herself into the reclusion of her illness wills herself to bloom in the presence...
...President conceded for the first time that al-Qaeda had no presence in Iraq before the U.S. invasion, adding, "So what?" In another news cycle, this admission would have dominated the headlines: that after the debunking of Bush's original excuse for war--Saddam's weapons of mass destruction--his argument that Iraq was a crucial nexus in the global war on terrorism also held no water. Thanks to al-Zaidi, nobody heard the other shoe drop...
Mary C. Bellamy, college counselor at Cape Cod Academy in Barnstable, Mass., said that there were varying levels of awareness of financial aid opportunities...
...trend of independent stores opening in the past year to replace national chains. Crema Café, for instance, replaced Jasmine Sola, and Passport Boutique replaced Caché. Three businesses—Topaz, Looks, and Cambridge Eye Doctors—that have opened recently in the Square moved from upper Mass. Ave locations. “What this tells me is that property owners and business managers here are really willing to negotiate space arrangements with locally owned independents,” Jillson said. “There’s a real desire to be in a very desirable location...
Laiou died of thyroid cancer at Mass. General Hospital on Thursday afternoon...