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...gobble them. The way that you read a book at 13 is different. You read it at a gallop, while you are eating. You avoid human contact. I read New Moon over the course of a day and a half in Ojai, Calif., at a very crunchy retreat that included a sweat lodge. Actually, my only pause was for a sweat lodge during which I asked the Quileute ancestors to come and give me good luck. Somewhere Jacob Black was pleased. I was channeling Team Jacob because he needs it in this movie. Everyone already knows about Edward. (See pictures...
...million second week 3. The Men Who Stare at Goats, $6.2 million; $22.4 million, second week 4. Precious, $6.1 million; $8.9 million, second week 5. Michael Jackson's This Is It, $5.1 million; $68.2 million, third week 6. The Fourth Kind, $4.7 million; $20.6 million, second week 7. Couples Retreat, $4.3 million; $102.1 million, sixth week 8. Paranormal Activity, $4.2 million; $103.8 million, eighth week 9. Law Abiding Citizen, $3.9 million; $67.3 million, fifth week 10. The Box, $3.2 million; $13.2 million, second week...
Three times, the army has gone into South Waziristan, only to be forced into ignoble retreat. But Kayani, 57, seems determined to win this time. He is leading his army into a war that is both guerrilla in nature - the militants know the terrain and have local support - and conventional in its goals. "For the military, the goal is limited: to degrade and destroy these elements and not let them use South Waziristan as a sanctuary from which to spread terrorism in the rest of Pakistan," says Rifaat Hussain, of Islamabad's Quaid-i-Azam University...
...Michael Jackson's This Is It, $14 million; $57.9 million, second week 3. The Men Who Stare At Goats, $13.3 million, first week 4. The Fourth Kind, $12.5 million,, first weekend 5. Paranormal Activity, $8.6 million; $97.4 million, seventh week 6. The Box, $7.9 million, first week 7. Couples Retreat, $6.4 million; $96 million, fifth week 8. Law Abiding Citizen, $6.2 million; $60.9 million, fourth week 9. Where the Wild Things Are, $4.2 million; $69.2 million, fourth week 10. Astro Boy, $2.6 million; $15.1 million, third week Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Israelis and Administration officials suggest that the settlement-freeze issue shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of negotiations. However, in the eyes of the Palestinians, the Obama Administration's retreat on the issue signals that the U.S. is not going to pressure Israel for concessions it has been adamantly unwilling to make. Without such U.S. pressure on Israel, the Palestinian leadership believes there's nothing to be gained from talking to the hawkish Netanyahu government. From the perspective of Fatah, the almost two decades spent relying on U.S.-led diplomacy to deliver Palestinian national goals has delivered...