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...question his judgment in selecting his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. Palin’s nomination has been controversial, and while we understand her appeal to a limited slice of the electorate, we do not believe that she is prepared for the nation’s second-highest office...
...Over Labor Day weekend The Dark Knight will probably surpass $500 million at the U.S. box office. It has already swept into the record books, with the biggest opening weekend of all time ($158.4 million) and widest opening release of all time (4,366 theaters), and is also the second-highest grossing film ever, behind Titanic's $600.8 million. Director Christopher Nolan's bleak reinvention of the classic comic book character was savvily marketed and aggressively distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (TIME and Warner Bros. are both subsidiaries of Time Warner) and warmly welcomed by critics, sparking a box office...
...view—a process that began as soon as I arrived at Harvard. My fellow students seemed, somehow, to find Boston teams a bit tiresome, if such a thing could be believed. Some people, I quickly learned, were tired of hearing about curses from a team with the second-highest payroll in baseball, or about the quarterback who threw perfect spirals and dated Brazilian übermodels. In fact, they seemed to feel that Boston fans were just a little bit entitled (imagine that!), unbearably smug and boastful when their teams won, and sulky and defensive when they didn?...
...they will challenge the basic fairness of the proceedings. Indeed, this week, Hamdan's lawyers will allege "unlawful command influence" over their client's prospective trial. Col. Davis, Guantanamo's former chief prosecutor, is expected to testify that Gordon Englund, the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Pentagon's second-highest civilian, told him last year, "We need to think about charging some high-value detainees because there could be strategic value before the [November] election." Davis is also expected to repeat, as he has in court filings, that the Defense department's former top lawyer, general counsel William Haynes...
...young guy, but he’s developed into a great contributor.”Although it did not take Gibbons long to get his name on the stat sheet, logging a goal and an assist in his second game, his numbers this season certainly speak to vast improvement.After 10 games, the rookie boasts the team’s second-highest point total with 17, including eight in the last three contests. Perhaps more impressively, though, Gibbons has shown tremendous maturity, accumulating most of these points through his team-leading 11 assists.This unselfish behavior has endeared the rookie to head...