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France Goes Its Own Way The Front National is the big beast of Europe's far right. It was France's third-largest political party for much of this decade, and its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was runner-up in the 2002 French presidential elections. So in June the party might have expected to harness the perfect storm of rising unemployment, economic insecurity and the racial tensions that have disfigured French society to sail to a historic victory in the European elections. Instead, the FN's share of the vote tumbled, reducing its tally of seats from seven...
This is not meant as a condemnation of maximizing fun and living casually. I am committed to wearing runner-soled shoes, watching The Simpsons and making back-of-the-classroom wisecracks on Twitter. But the rampant juvenillization of national life does echo and reinforce unfortunate habits of mind. What do the naughtiest children do? They scream and cry and tell outrageous fibs, like Glenn Beck...
...Runner-up for the second weekend in a row, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince stanched its 62% dive last weekend with a more modest 40% tail-off, mostly owing to the adding of 161 IMAX screens, where the price of admission is much steeper. Of the two sophomore entries, G-Force, Jerry Bruckheimer's locked-and-loaded version of Alvin and the Chipmunks, came in third with $17.1 million, and The Ugly Truth, Katherine Heigl's R-rated tryst with Gerard Butler, plunged 53% to amass $13 million. Since the movie cost only $38 million to make...
...office in the compound, shaded by trees and a garden umbrella, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, who recently became ISAF's commander, and that of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, sat down to discuss his new role. Tall, lanky and earnest, with the loping stride of a long-distance runner - McChrystal runs 10 miles before his morning coffee - the general went to Afghanistan after a top job with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington. He knows Afghanistan well. The conflict there, McChrystal told TIME, is a "tough war, a very tough...
...canon, with the primary plot strenuously exerting itself to achieve familiar challenges and triumphs. Only the unrelated, subsidiary scenes with Scrat the squirrel and his foxy new inamorata Scratte showed any comic pizazz. (These scenes were created by a different story team.) With the speed of Road Runner, the karma of Wile E. Coyote and, this time, the romantic obsession of Pepé Le Pew, Scrat is a walking, stalking lexicon of characters created by the immortal Chuck Jones. Blue Sky, the Ice Age studio, should take an artistic leap and consider a feature-length, nonverbal Scrat feature...