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...Drew Barrymore is the voice of Chloe, a high-maintenance, pink-bootie-wearing Chihuahua with a hovering celebrity owner (Jamie Lee Curtis). When her careless dog sitter (Piper Perabo) takers Chloe to Mexico, the pooch is kidnapped by a dog-fighting ring. But in this pup's harrowing quest to return home to the Hills, she ends up finding her inner bark...
...care, don't count me out, but I'm not delusional." If you go too young, you look desperate. If you go too old, you go right to Queen Mum. I was in a store a while ago and I saw this really cute shirt and the young boutique owner rushed over to me and said, "That top is adorable." I said, "I know, but you don't think it's too young?" She said, "No." I said, "The sleeves aren't too short?" She said, "No, your arms are still good." I could hear the biological clock...
...those are only short-term fixes. For export-oriented Asian economies, the specter of a protracted U.S. recession remains daunting. Tommy Lam, owner of a garment factory in Dongguan, a Chinese city near Hong Kong, says that he has already seen a reduction in demand. "We're not getting the repeat orders we're supposed to get," Lam says...
...women wouldn't give me their names. They said they were worried about what the store's owner might think. The reason I've mentioned them is that later, when those poll results came in, I recalled another thing the woman behind the counter had volunteered. "I would hate to think that anyone would vote against Obama because of who he is," she said, "but I also don't like the idea of people voting for him just because he's black...
...though I didn't have to ask many questions. Just about everyone seemed to have a strong opinion. It was the sort of place where everyone knows one another in a small-town way, and they all talk and laugh and say outrageous things. Renee Martin, the salon's owner, told me she and her husband disagree so strongly, they can't even talk about the election anymore. And that was surprising because at first she was afraid of Obama. "What had me scared," she explained, "was the whole thing about, Was he a Muslim...