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...show that Brüno was not even the top live-action comedy about a non-American who has sex with a man: it finished behind The Proposal, which has been in theaters three weeks longer. (The Sandra Bullock movie was buoyed Friday by screenings in auditoriums also showing sneak previews of next weekend's Katherine Heigl rom-com The Ugly Truth.) Holding even stronger was The Hangover, which cost $35 million to produce and is cruising toward the $250 million domestic mark. Brüno, The Hangover and The Proposal finished within $100,000 of one another, according...
...anti-war student protesters when he came to deliver the first speech at the newly created Kennedy School Institute of Politics. When he refused to debate an anti-war spokesman brought on campus by Students for a Democratic Society, McNamara was blockaded in Quincy House and was forced to sneak out using decoys and underground steam tunnels...
...decades since, the focus of a dynastic cult of personality like no other. (Dead for 15 years, Kim Il Sung is still North Korea's "President for life.") Kim Jong Il has three sons from two wives. The eldest embarrassed his father in 2001 by trying to sneak into Japan on a fake passport. His father thinks the middle son, Kim Jong Chul, is "too feminine" for the job, according to Fujimoto. Hence the mantle of leadership will apparently someday be handed to Kim Jong Un. "A systematic succession plan is now under way, and has been since early this...
...dress in animal drag: male goodeid fish, for instance, sometimes have a black spot that resembles a spot that females get when pregnant. Dominant males then court them rather than fight with them. While the dominant guys are busy courting the subordinate, ladylike fish, the latter are able to "sneak copulations with females," as Bailey and Zuk write. I'm going to dub this the Hugh Grant Theory: it's not always the most masculine guy who gets the most girls...
...shouldn't be allowed to surf," Gerard says. "We see ourselves as an asset to local communities." But given the risk of being ticketed and fined $500, Chicago surfers have typically gone elsewhere in the Great Lakes, the world's largest body of fresh water. Still, aficionados continued to sneak into the water, and after one ticket too many, a group of surfers last December sent Chicago's Park District a proposal asking that surfing be allowed at four of the city's beaches during the traditional beach season, Memorial Day to Labor Day, as well as year-round...