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Shutter Island's success was bad news for last weekend's top three films. Valentine's Day lost 70% of last week's audience, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 51% and The Wolfman, an expensive flop, 69%. Percy Jackson could be the only film of the trio that isn't a one-week wonder. Of the returning films in the weekend's top 15, the one with the most modest drop, 26%, was Dwayne Johnson's kid comedy Tooth Fairy, which shows how little staying power the other movies have...
...after the convention that will determine if his State Senate bid is successful. Everyone - Bill's mother Lois, his brother Joey and all three sister-wives - got in a tizz over two events involving Bill's eldest son Ben. Word of the not-quite-inadvertent kiss has spread, a news story soon topped by the bulletin that Bill "exiled" his son. Moments before Bill's big debate at the convention, Barb tells him to reconcile with Ben - "right away, this minute, or I swear I'll check myself into the boobyhatch" - then confronts Margene, whose fury makes her blurt...
Colin Zwanziger ’13 of Wigglesworth and Julie M. Zauzmer ’13, a Crimson news editor of Straus, came in second and third, respectively...
Simpson greeted the news by decrying the state of American politics. "To use politics of fear and division and hate on each other - we are at a point right now where it doesn't make a damn whether you're a Democrat or a Republican if you've forgotten you're an American," he said. (Read a commentary on bipartisanship by Newt Gingrich...
...strategist, Baradar has firsthand knowledge of the links between the Taliban and al-Qaeda's operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan. And Washington says he is willing to share his secrets with Pakistani and CIA interrogators. Unidentified U.S. officials quoted by the New York Times, which broke the news of Baradar's arrest, say he is providing a "wealth of information." (See pictures of Osama bin Laden...