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...continue to topple. Currently seventh on the all-time list of domestic moneymakers, Avatar should pass Star Wars: Phantom Menace ($431.1 million), E.T. ($435.1 million) and Shrek 2 ($441.1 million) in a few days, and by next weekend it will overtake the original Star Wars ($461 million) for third place. That leaves only The Dark Knight ($533.3 million) and the all-time champ, Cameron's own Titanic ($600.7 million). In worldwide gross, Avatar is just as impressive: it made another $300 million or so this past week for a total of $1.3 billion. That vaulted it past three...
...Crucially, those artists also taught at academies like the Mayo School of Art in Lahore, later revamped as the National College of Arts (NCA). In an essay in Hanging Fire, Pakistani novelist and TIME contributor Mohsin Hamid, who had friends who went to NCA in the 1990s, writes: "The place was a microcosm of Pakistan, but of a creative Pakistan, an alternative to the desiccated Pakistan that General Zia [ul-Haq] had tried to ram down our throats." Many of the artists in the book, most of whom are in their 30s and 40s, have trained or taught (sometimes both...
Freshman backup Laura Bellamy started in Kessler’s place, making 21 saves over two games...
...gotten our forecheck rolling at that point,” Buesser said. “We were getting a lot of shots on goal. We got the power play and it really fell into place...
...national team in the northern Angolan province of Cabinda, where an Angolan rebel group killed three people - the bus driver, a coach and the team's press officer - and injured at least two players on their way to an Africa Cup of Nations match. Even though the attack took place in a country other than South Africa, Britain's Daily Mirror declared the incident a "disaster for the forthcoming first-ever World Cup in Africa. The machine-gun attack on the Togo players may have taken place in northern Angola last night, but the shots would have been heard around...