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...weekend when the top three films boasted African or African-American protagonists, two true-life sports inspirationals took the runner-up slots. The Blind Side, the story of a homeless black teenager who becomes a football star after being adopted by a white woman and her family, continued its run as the season's from-nowhere hit. Made for less than $30 million, the sturdy Sandra Bullock star vehicle took in $15.5 million, and after just 24 days has topped the $150 million mark in domestic receipts. Following a movie about football was one about rugby: Clint Eastwood's South...
...Princess and the Frog, $25 million; $29.9 million, third week 2. The Blind Side, $15.5 million; $150.2 million, fourth week 3. Invictus, $9.1 million, first weekend 4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon, $8 million; $267.4 million, fourth week 5. Disney's A Christmas Carol, $6.9 million; $124.5 million, sixth week 6. Brothers, $5 million; $17.4 million, second week 7. 2012, $4,400,000; $155.3 million, fifth week 8. Old Dogs, $4,396,000; $40 million, third week 9. Armored, $3.5 million; $11.8 million, second week 10. Ninja Assassin, $2.7 million; $34.3 million, third week...
...public is furious that big banks and Wall Street firms are once again making pots of money while Main Street suffers through 10% unemployment. With year-end bonuses soon to be handed out to financial executives, Obama and the White House need to be seen to be on the side of the little guy. ((Facebook users, comment on this story below...
...small businesses or modifying home loans. And Obama's pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, could target the bank's bonuses with what the senior bank executive calls a "crazy" pay restriction like the one Britain passed last week. But the banks are expert at staying just on the right side of the Administration's guidelines for lending, and they have many friends on the Hill who can help defuse a movement to punish the banks. Which is why Obama's weapon of choice for now will be trying to shame the banks into better behavior. Which has the benefit of making...
...hills and tea estates of Darjeeling, in northern West Bengal, with protesters intensifying demands for a new state of Gorkhaland that would better address the needs of the area's ethnic Nepalese population. More than 100 activists have begun what they call a "fast-unto-death." On the other side of the country, in the vast desert state of Rajasthan, a caravan of some 5,000 demonstrators and 500 camels paraded into the capital of Jaipur on Friday, agitating for the formation of Maru Pradesh, a state that would be carved out of some of Rajasthan's poorest districts. "Rajasthan...