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...Twilight Saga fans who didn't give the shirts off their backs to see the second installment in the planned quartet of movies based on the Stephenie Meyer novels about a teen girl's love with the proper vampire. With its $72.7 million Friday take - more than its predecessor, last year's Twilight, earned in its first full weekend - New Moon set a one-day record for the North American box office. By tonight, according to studio estimates, it will have earned $140.7 million, which makes the film a prime mover in what could be, according to Variety, "the second...
Eugenides deftly weaves each generation’s narratives together to form an epic saga brimming with parallels. While each new generation drifts further in identity, culture, and success from its predecessor, the reality of the collective tragedy that culminates in Cal/Calliope’s gender dysphoria is unavoidable. “But in the end it wasn’t up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we’re born,” he remarks...
...round-trip tickets are offered for a seat in a bus of lovely rugby ladies. Five dollars less than the traditional HSA bus, the rugby bus also promises interesting conversation regarding the predecessor of American football. The bus leaves Harvard at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, leaving you plenty of time to indulge in refreshments before the game. The bus leaves New Haven at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, also giving you time to indulge in refreshments afterwards if your liver is still intact...
...terms of definitive progress, the Obama Administration will end the year having made little more headway than its predecessor: there will be no international climate pact this year, and the deadline for a nuclear-arms deal with Russia will slip into 2010. China offered no concessions on key issues like trade imbalances and human rights. (In fact, its authoritarian government prepped for Obama's arrival by detaining still more dissidents.) Elsewhere in the world, North Korea remains defiant, and Israel - spurning Obama's requests - has announced further settlement expansion. (See pictures of life in the settlements...
Initially, Kilpatrick maintained the confidence of Detroit's business establishment, extending many of the economic-development projects that were launched by his predecessor, Dennis Archer Sr. Kilpatrick moved thousands off Detroit's bloated job rolls and reduced property taxes to sustain what was left of Detroit's middle class. But Kilpatrick's personal excesses quickly overshadowed his professional success. In 2007, a jury awarded $6.5 million to two Detroit police officers who alleged that they were essentially dismissed for investigating concerns about Kilpatrick and his bodyguards' efforts to conceal his extramarital affairs. Then came a text-messaging scandal, which revealed...