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...Funny People cadged the lowest take for any No. 1 film this year. Not just in the prime-time summer months - we're talking January too. It was also Sandler's poorest opener in five years, since Spanglish. And it earned a B-, or barely passing, from the Cinemascore poll of people who'd seen the movie. That's not so funny. (Read TIME's Funny People review...
...CHARM Less than a year after he overthrew Mauritania's first democratically elected President in a coup d'état, former general Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz legitimized his rule with a landslide win in the northern African country's July 18 presidential election. Though opposition candidates rejected the poll as an "electoral coup," international observers maintain that the result appears to be legitimate. The election's peaceful conclusion opens doors for the reintroduction of international aid, much of which was cut off in protest after the 2008 takeover...
...bring transparency to New Jersey's government. But corruption probably won't decide the race, even though Corzine has tried to turn the tables by running (oft criticized) attack ads that question whether Christie doled out jobs to friends during his tenure as U.S. Attorney. "We've been polling on important voter issues since January, and corruption has never been named by more than 6%," says Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth University's Polling Institute. "Our last poll was prior to the recent arrests, but I don't expect it to climb much higher ... Property taxes are voters...
...further action has soured. "Given what we know now about how sick the economy, it turns out, was getting, probably bigger might have been better," a senior White House official admits. "It was always an issue, of course, of what could you get through Congress." (Read "TIME Health-Care Poll: Americans Back Reform, Worry Over Details...
With sensitivities like those, it's little wonder the poll found French women had strong opinions about public nakedness. Nearly 50% said they were bothered by total nudity on beaches or naturist camps, and 37% said they were disturbed by publicly exposed breasts or buttocks. Forty-five percent of respondents reported they'd prefer to see a lot less flesh hanging out in full view - male or female...