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...past decade, "Cruise has made six films for Paramount with worldwide box office totals of $2.4 billion, accounting for 32% of Paramount's total income for the six years he had a film in release." The publicist added that Cruise's last two films, War of the Worlds and Mission Impossible 3, have grossed $977.8 million worldwide. "As an actor, Tom is responsible for almost $3 billion in box office revenue for Paramount," said Wagner. "That's more money than any other actor has made for any single studio in history...
...command through February. France will also maintain its naval presence, which has been shuttling evacuees to Cyprus. What it balks at is committing large numbers of troops to the enlarged U.N. force itself. "I remember the painful experience of other operations where U.N. forces didn't have sufficiently precise missions or means," Alliot-Marie told French radio, recalling the deaths of 71 French soldiers in the ill-conceived mission to Bosnia in the early 1990s. In October 1983, 58 French peacekeepers died in a suicide bombing in Beirut widely attributed to a precursor of Hizballah. "The sense...
...leading the operation. Worse, it was recently discovered that bullfrogs carry chytrid fungus, which kills other amphibians. Prior attempts to eradicate invasive species have failed in France. But the park service has already killed thousands of the frogs, their tadpoles and eggs, and residents nearby are praying this eradication mission succeeds: "Thousands of bullfrogs croaking all night is unbearable," Dejean says...
...interactive Web portal. Thousands have chatted with Star, typically staying on-site for 15 minutes--three times as long as the average visit before he went live. Major Brad Van Poppel, who works on the Web-outreach program, credits Star's "cool factor" and says he's fulfilling his mission: "When 85% of teenagers are online every day, the Army wants to be there...
...Pakistan may have won points with the U.S. for its steadfastness in the Rauf case. British authorities had wanted to wait for the alleged plotters to do a dry run of their mission before striking. Washington vigorously disagreed, and while Pakistan was officially neutral in the spat, an Islamabad official points out, "The last thing we want is for something to happen and everyone says it's linked to Pakistan." According to one source, the U.S. threatened to take Rauf with Pakistan's help even if London didn't move. Washington won, the British swooped down on their suspects...