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...sprint. While U.S. troops launched an all-out, high-risk offensive to destroy Shi'ite militia loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr last week, the U.N. envoy responsible for forming a new Iraqi government, Lakhdar Brahimi, huddled with aides and dignitaries in the Republican Palace in Baghdad to plot the shape of Iraq's political future. Bad as the past two months have been, U.S. officials believe that if the military keeps a lid on the insurgency and if Brahimi's plan picks up support, they might still be able to steer Iraq toward democratic elections by January...
...nothing so dramatic as this, and certainly not at Hollywood speed: in the movie a killer frost chases a sprinting Gyllenhaal down a hallway. Change that drastic would take decades, if not centuries. Even Dan Schrag, a Harvard paleoclimatologist who spoke at the MoveOn.org press conference, says the plot is largely bunk: "Climate change, global warming, is not going to lead to an Ice Age. And it's not going to happen in a few days...
...many obstacles before gaining her family's acceptance of an ogre as son-in-law and a genial ending. Mostly the trouble stems from a Fairy Godmother who thinks her handsome, egomaniac son would be a much better mate for Fiona, but who goes to Shrek movies for the plot? God may or may not be in the details, but the best laughs surely...
With more than 7.3 million copies in print and 59 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code is much more than a mere publishing phenomenon. The controversial theories about Jesus' life woven into its plot have generated enough interest to spawn an information industry of sorts. Here's how some entrepreneurs are cashing in on the global Code craze...
...could be treated soberly - and was, in a half a dozen or more Cannes films this year - but that wouldn't suit Almodóvar's cine-showmanship. The story spins backward four times before landing on its subject, then skips assuredly from comedy to horror, with a pretty plot twist at the end. It's all prime Pedro. Like Bad Education, House of Flying Daggers marks a relaxation, but not a reduction, for a world-class director. Hero, Zhang's kung fu classic of 2002, was a meditative, superbly color-coded parable of love and death. Daggers...