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...finishing order this weekend - Harry Potter 6 Ice Age 3 Transformers 2 - might seem like the score of a three-team intergalactic Quidditch match, but it's really a demonstration of the power of sequels. The sixth installment of the Potter series has already earned more than $200 million worldwide - probably way, way more, since the week's final international figures won't come out until later on Monday, and the franchise has typically earned nearly 70% of its theatrical coin abroad. The third Ice Age cartoon, Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which has also enjoyed a foreign take...
McCourt was the first of seven children whom their mother Angela cared for indomitably. But even she was no match for the grinding poverty that Malachy's drinking brought upon the family, and for the cold and damp of Limerick. They became so poor that three of the children - twin brothers and a baby girl - died of disease and malnutrition. "It was, of course, a miserable childhood," McCourt famously wrote in Angela's Ashes, in a passage that's worth quoting in full. "The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable...
...press conference, Yudhoyono also lamented Manchester United's cancellation of their planned soccer match with an Indonesian all-star side next week. "If this hadn't happened, the best-known soccer club in the world would have played in Jakarta," he said. The team had planned to stay at the Ritz-Carlton...
...write about an amateur boxing match in which you participated. You had your nose broken and your jaw knocked out of line. Would you ever box again? I would like to box again. It's very thrilling. I'm not the sort to jump out of a plane or skydive, but in boxing, you're really putting yourself on the edge, especially for a safe, middle-class person like myself. I wish I was the kind of writer who would go to a war zone and write about something that's meaningful and important to people, but that...
...while U.S. economic dominance appears to be giving way to something more muddled, this doesn't imply absolute decline. The U.S. retains a lot of strong points - great universities, millions of ambitious immigrants, a culture that celebrates risk-taking - that are hard for any other nation to match. Just because the U.S. is no longer all-important doesn't mean it will no longer be competitive. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...