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...start with John Travolta, who plays Charlie Wax, a special operations agent for an unnamed but extremely bloodthirsty undercover American agency. To inhabit this role, he seems to have stolen Bruce Willis's bald head, along with the goatee Willis sports when he needs to look super tough and mature. This gleaming-headed Wax man has been sent to Paris to bust a drug ring and a terrorist cell. As a bonus, he will give machismo lessons to James (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), a wonky polyglot who works as an aide to the U.S. Ambassador but longs to be Jason Bourne...
...When Dear John starts, Channing Tatum looks like the likely Ali since he's flat on his back in a soldier's uniform, his blood seeping into a mud puddle. Tatum is John Tyree, a special-forces soldier madly in love with chaste, do-gooder college student Savannah (Amanda Seyfried), whom he met during a two-week leave in the spring of 2001. We go to flashbacks, and as John enfolds Savannah in his big, beautiful arms, with Sept. 11 hovering like a hurricane over the South Carolina beaches, you take bets on whether that mud puddle was in Afghanistan...
Asia's economic strength is not a result of some ancient Chinese secret or a special economic model that Americans must copy to survive. It owes to simple, old-fashioned, free enterprise, the kind Americans love to love. The "democratic capitalism" being questioned in the U.S. is finding new roots in a rising Asia. If Americans want to learn the correct lessons from Asia, they can ironically find them right at home...
...Edwards split may be a special case, but the Hopper schism appears to center on an all-too-familiar family bugbear, money. Neither of the Hoppers' lawyers would comment, but their divorce filings indicate this may be his way of choosing sides in a looming fight over his estate...
...morning before the special election, on Jan. 19, Brown had roughly 76,000 Facebook fans hooked onto his page and more than 10,000 Twitter followers. "I think we out-campaigned [Coakley] every step of the way," says political director Pete Fullerton. "We were able to get out the vote in a lot of communities...