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...anything else, for that matter. Take this new invention, for example: Mary has a daughter named Molly (India Ennenga), who is a standard-issue adolescent Wise Child, victim-commentator on the adult follies proceeding around her. At one point she is discovered burning her tampons, symbolizing her desire not to become a woman. That's an understandable feeling, given the adult company she's been obliged to keep. But it's a stupid sequence, neither funny nor touching nor well prepared for. It is merely awkward and desperate, like everything else in this film, which is, in fact...
...Eason's ordering is obtuse (the King George snippet comes under I for "I want to know" and not, say, K for King George) but it really doesn't matter where the book falls open - this is a work for dipping. Cricket lovers will be contentedly stroking chins over such arcana as the number of first-class appearances Bradman made before his first test (nine) or the highest number of consecutive test innings against England in which he did not score a century...
...Obama may believe in investing in a mandate to govern - helping to expand Democrats in Congress and in local and municipal races - but that won't matter a whole lot if he fails to win the presidency. "This 50-state strategy, I hope it's real," says Bill Steiner, the RNC's director of strategy. "But I actually think what it's for is to cover up some of their weakness in targeted states like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. States that Democrats can't afford to lose. This is about quality vs. quantity...
...TIME that "something strange has clearly happened. We know Kim Jong Il has been out of sight for a few weeks, and we know physicians from outside North Korea have come to Pyongyang. But that's all we know at this point, and we believe our intelligence on this matter is [better] than...
...memoir published last year, Kim's former sushi chef, a Japanese citizen with the pseudonym Kenji Fujimoto, says Jong Chul, who is in his late 20s, is out because his father once said, "he is no good because he is like a little girl.") It may not matter because the North's generals can run the country regardless of its figurehead...