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...unless you count The Passion of the Christ). At the moment it trails only E.T., the first Narnia saga, New Moon, Twister and My Big Fat Greek Wedding among movies with a woman as the top-billed performer - and Bullock is the only lead actress in those films with real star power. So by any standard, The Blind Side...
...financial-industry meltdown. What's more, the commission's chair Phil Angelides, a Democrat and former California state treasurer, has already come out swinging against Wall Street, calling the bonuses financial firms are planning to hand out soon for last year "unjustifiably wrong." So it's no real surprise that the first ones to be in the hot seat are the bankers themselves. (See pictures of Americans in their homes...
...only a small part of those 57% who voted for the ban acted out of pure "extremism and intolerance." The result speaks of a fear not of Islam itself, but of politicized religion. We need to move away from both types of extremism - xenophobia and politicized Islam - and toward real integration. Just as a bad question begs a bad answer, real and sensible dialogue may yield real and sensible solutions. Marlene Ringel Mainz, Germany...
...only a small part of those 57% who voted for the ban acted out of pure "extremism and intolerance." The result speaks of a fear not of Islam itself, but of politicized religion. We need to move away from both types of extremism - xenophobia and politicized Islam - and toward real integration. Just as a bad question begs a bad answer, real, sensible dialogue may yield real, sensible solutions. Marlene Ringel, MAINZ, GERMANY...
...rivals she deftly derailed along the way. Elected to the first parliament of the reunited Germany, she was appointed a Cabinet minister by Chancellor Helmut Kohl just one year later. He called her das Mädchen, "the girl." She was used to sexism. "There was no real equality in the German Democratic Republic," she says. "There were no female industrialists or members of the politburo." So she smiled her feline smile and made no protest but quickly distanced herself from her patronizing patron once he became entangled in a party finance scandal. (Read: 'Much Work' Ahead for German Chancellor...