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...Last week's top banana, Hannah Montana: The Movie, dropped 60%, to $12.7 million, giving the Disney Channel's tween-dream factory a still-healthy one-four punch for the weekend. Two of the year's solid hits, Fast & Furious and Monsters vs Aliens, took the third and fifth slots. Between them, they have now racked up about $300 million at the domestic wickets, and another $200 million or so abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Report: Zac to the Future! | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

...Michael Clayton and Bourne movie fame; and Billy Ray, who did the magazine-corruption film Shattered Glass and the CIA exposé Breach. When a trio of top names is on a script, you can guess that each worked consecutively on the material, trying to slim it down or punch it up; and that each was employed to fix the "improvements" the previous man had made. It's been reported that Brad Pitt had been signed to play Cal, but departed the project after difficulties with the script. Pitt was right: none of the writers had solved the adaptation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Play: Better on the Small Screen | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...inside the Pentagon as "plus-ups" - more money for different, but similar, programs. Changes that might seem dubious in isolation make more sense when viewed as part of what Gates calls his "holistic assessment." The argument that the Air Force needs more F-22 fighters loses some of its punch once you learn that Gates wants to boost production of the $100 million-a-copy F-35 fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gates' Battle Plan for the Defense Budget | 4/17/2009 | See Source »

...certain circles in the city, Bersin is a verb. Bersin is a punch line. Bersin is the boogeyman. Yet outside San Diego, Bersin and his education work are the subject of academic research and think tanks." (San Diego Union-Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alan Bersin: Obama's 'Border Czar' | 4/16/2009 | See Source »

...Crimson battled back with goals from Gibbons, rookie Terry White, and co-captain Max Motschwiller to put three on the board and take a 3-2 lead into the second frame. “Lacrosse is a game of ebbs and flows, and we call it the first punch,” Smith said. “If you throw the first one, it makes a big difference, sets the tone. That’s been an emphasis for us. We succeeded in doing that, but we weren’t able to sustain it for the whole game...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Continues Winless Streak Against Princeton | 4/13/2009 | See Source »

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