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...Miss Congeniality, she was a gruff FBI agent who went undercover as a perky contestant in a beauty pageant; this time she's a bitch on heels who has to impersonate a human being at the home of Reynolds' aggressively friendly family. (The Proposal also plays like the flip side of another weekend-with-the-family comedy, the Steve Carell Dan in Real Life. The few romantic comedies, like the zillions of guy-bonding comedies, tend to repeat their tropes...
...first time in history, more books were self-published in the U.S. than were published the regular way. Amazon has invested heavily in publisher-free publishing, and it's paying off handsomely. The sector has seen two straight years of triple-digit growth, and on the cultural side, the stigma associated with "vanity" publishing is wearing away...
Make room on the shelf for yet another political tome with a hyperbolic title. This one is situated squarely on the left side of the aisle, so conservative readers need not apply--if, as Charles Pierce implies, conservative reader isn't a contradiction in terms. The terrain is well trod: from intelligent design to the dubious link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11, Pierce argues, prevailing political wisdom in the U.S. has been based not on fact but on who could shout loudest. The book elevates itself with original reporting, some witty asides (a Mitch Albom best seller is slammed...
...pictures of China on the wild side...
North Korea would like to test missiles and advance its nuclear program, while smuggling arms to some potentially bad actors for extra cash. The U.S. would like North Korea to stop doing all of these things. Neither side is particularly interested in finding out what happens should the other press the issue. And thus North Korea and the U.S. find themselves in a very strange Kabuki war. Pyongyang is plainly the instigator, continuing its rash of missile and nuclear tests while apparently seeking hard currency by peddling weapons to all buyers. Like automated chess pieces, U.S. military assets have responded...