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...Cannes. Last week the indie drama - about a Harlem teenager who is illiterate, morbidly obese and pregnant for a second time by her abusive father - broke records in a very limited opening; this week it took in $6.1 million at just 174 theaters for a wowie-zowie $35,000 per screen. That's how Paranormal Activity started out. Fervently promoted by Tyler Perry (who brought the movie to his distributor, Lionsgate) and Oprah Winfrey, with a plug from George H.W. Bush, Precious has a chance to be a crossover hit, appealing to African-American audiences, the art-house crowd...
...project called the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm), a controversial two-year program that will drop the price of the recommended malaria treatment in nine malarial countries. In Cambodia, the only country in Asia participating in the program, the price of malaria medication will fall to only $0.05 per dose for distributors. Even with markups down the supply chain, the best malaria medicine will, for the first time in Cambodia, also be the cheapest. (See pictures of the Global Fund's work...
...Crimson defense is thinking most about how to stop Penn’s running game. Quaker halfback Lyle Marsh rushed for 99 yards last week against Princeton and has averaged 4.9 yards per carry on the season...
Offensively, the Crimson has 28 goals this season, averaging 1.75 per game on 15.2 shots. Penn, meanwhile, has managed only 22 goals—1.38 per game on an average of 12.8 shots. On the other side of the ball, Harvard’s defense has been spectacular this season, allowing only 13 goals (.81 per game), while the Quakers have almost doubled that number with 25 goals allowed (1.56 per game...
...year is 1966, and despite England’s successful production of some of the most famous rock ’n’ roll bands in the world, the national British radio only plays two hours of the music per week. To combat this, a group of DJs have established a radio station on a small freighter in the middle of the North Sea. Here they cohabitate while playing rock ’n’ roll 24/7 with a listener rate—according to the film—constituting half of the country’s population...