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...most miserable beast to take on (think how the mighty Peter Jackson got mired in it in The Lovely Bones). If there's no romance to counter the loss, the box office tends not to be boffo (as with Nick Cassavetes' 2009 My Sister's Keeper which may have infuriated as many people as it moved). In theory, losing someone you love shouldn't be any less universal than finding someone to love, but it tends to be such an inwardly focused experience - most of us just hole up in pajamas and mope - that it's an enormous challenge...
...movie landed last weekend on about 2,000 3-D screens, with about the same for 2-D, and earned $43.7 million - more than enough to win the box-office race but considerably less than the opening, the same week last year, of DreamWorks' Monsters vs Aliens. The dip may be attributed to a lack of stars in the voice roles or to the more traditional, Disney-feature-like story and tone, but it could also be that more 3-D screens would have given Dragon more firepower. (Watch TIME's video "The 3-D Experience...
...Monitoring Group on Somalia provided some illuminating details in a report in February. The report describes a corporate system in which pirates may be fined $1,500 for stealing from their ships or $500 for entering their bosses' offices without permission. On the flip side, pirates can win rewards of several thousand dollars for good behavior. "As the saying goes, 'the parents initially love their children equally, but it is the children who make them love some more than the others,' " says a document distributed to pirates by their bosses, according to the U.N. report. "It is up to your...
...much ransom is paid for the ships they hijack. All of the financial negotiations are conducted well above their pay grade. "These guys, you can call them ragtag people," says Nyawinda, their lawyer. "They don't have a leader as such. When I go visit them in jail, one may know Swahili more than the others. Whoever among them understands more becomes the leader...
...York Times for such coverage. But most journalists and non-Catholics derive no satisfaction at all from seeing these events unfold. The horror at the victims' suffering drives the narrative. But this is also a tale of human failings - both moral and administrative - by some who may otherwise be decent people, causing grave damage to a worldwide church that does good and offers comfort to millions. (See the Vatican's struggle for damage control...