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Young inventor Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) has come to Robot City to present his gadgets to revered Mr. Bigweld (Mel Brooks), whose company has been subverted by his underlings' plan to phase out all old robots with the ad line "Why be you when you can be new?" Rodney's allies in the good fight include feisty young Piper (Amanda Bynes) and garrulous old Fender (Robin Williams...
...Israel. Still, in the long run, excluding them could be a disaster. Look no further than Algeria to see why: In 1991, the military regime there yielded to pressure and held elections. But when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front had won the first phase of the poll, democracy was abruptly canceled. The result was a savage terror backlash that has seen more than 100,000 Algerians killed over the past decade, and helped swell the ranks of al-Qaeda (the U.S. and France backed the military regime). If a new generation of young Egyptians see their calls...
Darfur Dilemma Debate over the slaughter in Darfur is moving into the crunch phase. As the U.N. Security Council struggles to decide what to do next about the murders and abuse engulfing the western Sudan province, the U.S. is circulating a draft resolution that calls for more peacekeepers on the ground in Darfur; imposes an arms embargo on all parties to the violence, including the Khartoum government; freezes the assets of, and bans travel by, individuals suspected of war crimes; and restricts offensive military flights. "We want a strong resolution with the widest possible support but which also makes...
...National Gallery in London through May 22. Previously presented in Naples, the exhibit is small; it lacks a few of the most important late paintings. But the 15 it includes, all but one from his years on the run, are the work of a man whose "late phase" came at the height of his powers. Caravaggio refused the idealizing principles of the Renaissance. He used ordinary people as his models and it shows: his come-hither boys dressed as pagan gods have dirty fingernails, his saints have calloused feet and sunburn. As his art evolved he learned to present them...
...want to stay away forever. Meanwhile, Saverin is counting the months until graduation. And money always remains an issue: the lawsuit filed by three Harvard graduates for the competing ConnectU site costs TheFacebook $20,000 a month, even though the case has yet to reach discovery phase...