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Such differing agendas help explain the unseemly bickering of the past couple weeks. Continental Europeans, with sounder banks and less fiscal room for maneuver, are rejecting U.S. calls to spend more; the U.S. and Britain, anxious not to kill off laissez-faire capitalism, are reluctant to cede to European demands for tougher global financial regulation. The old G7 countries are pushing to give the International Monetary Fund a financial boost; others distrust the IMF and want a much greater say in how it's run. Many complain that it's impossible to work with Washington because the new Administration...
...musing about fame and death, and what the papers will say when he goes. " 'GANDALF DIES,' I expect," he says. The thought tickles him. Not the dying part. The part about being a classical actor and having billions of fans, most of whom are 12. "When you spend as long as I have doing beautiful work which is only seen by a few thousand people, to be involved in popular entertainment without lessening one's standards ... that's fairly appealing," he says. "You become part of the culture." It's not that McKellen ever shied away from fame...
...this economy, will people spend as much as $15 a ticket for a movie? Katzenberg is optimistic, pointing out that consumers are cutting back on everything but cheap entertainment. "The movies have been the greatest beneficiary of this," he says. "So to offer a new, exciting premium version of a bargain will be a big winner...
...control and encouraged her to try abstinence. But more important, it didn't end after two weeks, giving her and other students a safe space to return to for answers and advice. It is a model of what can happen when a community decides that it's crazy to spend more time teaching kids about decimals and fractions than about dating and sex. (Read "A Brief History Of: Abstinence...
...education seriously isn't easy. "There are so many ways young people get messages about sex--parents, friends, media," says Sarah Brown, CEO of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Un ed Pregnancy. "It's hard for people to get a grip on those factors, so instead they spend their time arguing about what's on page 128." But we can't afford to keep failing our children. This month the National Center for Health Statistics reported that teen birthrates rose in 2007 for the second year, after a 15-year drop...