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...return for its support. As reported Thursday, Aug. 6, in the New York Times, the White House agreed privately not to push for anything beyond the $80 billion in savings that the industry promised over the next 10 years. "The President encouraged this approach," deputy chief of staff Jim Messina told the Times. He wanted to bring all the parties to the table to discuss health-insurance reform...
...This includes the nice ones, wounded sparrows like the Garnetts, Tom (Chris Messina) and Munch (Melanie Lynskey). Munch can't have kids, so they adopted; this is presented as the ultimate curse. Burt's brother Courtney (Paul Schneider) dearly loves his young daughter, but thinks she will be forever stigmatized because his wife has walked out. Apparently only traditional nuclear families can be happy. Indeed, the one successful brood is the one at the movie's center; they are all the things their friends aren't, and as sensitive as the acoustic guitar sound track mandatory in U.S. indie films...
Italy is no stranger to earthquakes. A 1980 quake in the country's south killed more than 2,500; some 80,000 died in 1908 when an earthquake struck the Sicilian city of Messina. Now, in the aftermath of the latest deadly temblor, come a series of familiar questions. Had all the buildings that collapsed been built up to standards? Will the money that has been promised for relief and rebuilding end up in the right hands? Could anything have been done to mitigate the damage? (See pictures of Italy's deadly earthquake...
...Despite the success of Tuesday's sweep, there was one name missing from the list of those arrested: Matteo Messina Denaro, 46, a bespectacled multiple murderer with a reported weakness for sports cars, remains at large. If the Cupola does return, police say, Messina Denaro would be the unrivaled chairman of the board...
...title characters are two American women and a one very romantic city. Vicky (English stage actress Rebecca Hall, who was the beguiling pawn of two magicians in The Prestige) wrote her master's in Catalan Identity. Before marrying businessman Doug (Chris Messina), she has come to Barcelona to spend July and August with a welcoming relative, Judy (Patricia Clarkson), and Judy's husband Mark (Kevin Dunn). Vicky has brought along her friend Cristina (current Woody muse Scarlett Johansson), who is restless emotionally and artistically. She has the impulse to be creative - she starred in and directed a 12 min. film...