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...days at North American theaters, according to early studio estimates. That's way below industry predictions (in the low- to middle-$20 millions) and less than a quarter of the $62 million amassed this weekend by the defending champ, Alice in Wonderland, which has leapt like a White Rabbit past the $200 million mark in just 10 days. The Tim Burton-Johnny Depp effort is also a war movie, at least partly, but with the Red Queen and the White Queen, not Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush, as the executive adversaries. (See Alice in Wonderland through the ages...
Laura Fortino opened the floodgates on an odd-man rush at 6:42, putting a pass from Chelsea Karpenko past Bellamy. A pair of goals from Melanie Jue and Karpenko gave the Big Red three goals in three minutes—ending both Bellamy’s night and her team’s chance at a trip to Minneapolis...
...Thaksin, who spoke to the protesters by video Saturday evening, is in Switzerland. He has been based in Dubai for the past two years, but Thailand's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the United Arab Emirates government had asked Thaksin to leave because he was using their country to foment political unrest in Thailand. Thaksin initially denied he had been expelled, but told followers in his video that he was now in Switzerland because the government had been "whining" to the UAE. (See pictures of people protesting Iran's election...
Dodd is right that he can't try to shimmy past a filibuster in an election year by cobbling together 59 Democrats and a Republican; it's probably hopeless, and certainly hopeless without cutting unsavory deals like the toxic Cornhusker Kickback on health care. But weakening the bill won't get him to 60 either; it will just alienate Democrats committed to reform in the House as well as the Senate, while most Republicans will still find some reason to oppose...
British rock impresario and Africa aid promoter Bob Geldof, a.k.a. "Saint Bob," was back in the headlines this past week after blowing his stack at the BBC for a story it aired alleging that Ethiopian rebels had diverted 95% of the $100 million in Ethiopian famine relief raised in the mid-1980s - much of it by Geldof's iconic Band Aid concert...