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...Hollywood remakers who try synopsizing the madly complex plot of an acclaimed British mini: at least change the title so it doesn't contain two bland nouns separated by an of; titles like Edge of Darkness and State of Play are foggy and instantly forgettable. Second tip: Don't bother. (See the best movies, TV, books and theater of the past decade...
...Avatar, $30 million; $594.5 million, seventh week 2. Edge of Darkness, $17.1 million, first weekend 3. When in Rome, $12.1 million, first weekend 4. Tooth Fairy, $10 million; $26.1 million, second week 5. The Book of Eli, $8.8 million; $74.4 million, third week 6. Legion, $6.8 million; $28.6 million, second week 7. The Lovely Bones, $4.7 million; $38 million, eighth week 8. Sherlock Holmes, $4.5 million; $197.6 million, sixth week 9. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, $4 million; $209.3 million, sixth week 10. It's Complicated, $3.7 million; $104 million, sixth week...
Since it became the prime economic indicator during the Second World War (to monitor war production) many have criticized policy-makers' reliance on the GDP - and proposed substitute measures. For example, there is the Human Development Index (HDI), used by the UN's Development Programme, which considers life expectancy and literacy as well as standard of living as determined by GDP. And the Genuine Progress Indicator, which incorporates aspects of social welfare such as income equity, pollution, and access to health care. In the international community, perhaps the biggest nudge has come from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who commissioned...
...sports, fairy tales are fleeting. Athletes often come out of nowhere, give you a surprising season or two, then take their rightful place back in obscurity. Just three years after his second MVP award, Warner was steaming down this path, and people barely blanched. "Of course," they said to themselves, "a stock boy could never be Brett Favre." Warner started throwing atrocious interceptions, developed a chronic fumbling problem, suffered a bad concussion. Warner was already in his early 30s, that's octogenarian in quarterback years. The Rams dumped him; he signed with the New York Giants in 2004, only...
...first act of Warner's drama began sensationally. But it is his second act, often underappreciated, that will put him in the Hall of Fame. After his career stalled with the Rams, his success was explained away: his receivers were so talented and the Rams offense choreographed so beautifully by the coaches that you or I could have put up the same big numbers. Warner would catch on with the Arizona Cardinals, a joke of a franchise, only to lose his job to another heralded rookie, Matt Leinart. But party-boy Leinart wasn't ready to rescue the team...