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...middle sections, and the sound recording makes it seem that everyone spoke into steel drums. Most of the actors are like plasticene puppets on a stop-motion movie set; their creators were so dazzled by their skills at art direction that they forgot to animate the figures. In standard-narrative terms, Daybreakers suffers from tired blood. No question the Spierigs are prime film imagineers. What they needed here was a director...
...Christ). At the moment it trails only E.T., the first Narnia saga, New Moon, Twister and My Big Fat Greek Wedding among movies with a woman as the top-billed performer - and Bullock is the only lead actress in those films with real star power. So by any standard, The Blind Side...
Despite the new bond issuance—which brings the University's total outstanding debt to $6.5 billion—Harvard will maintain its top-notch 'AAA' credit rating from both Moody's and Standard and Poor's, another credit rating service...
...World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), the relevant standard-setting body recognized by the World Trade Organization, deemed in 2007 that the U.S. is meeting appropriate beef safety standards. Many Taiwanese, however, are still not convinced. After the new agreement was signed in October, thousands protested in Taiwan, with one student even eating a cow dung burger (worms and all) in front of the presidential office to demand the government renegotiate. "The Ma administration underestimated people's worries," says Yen Chen-shen, a research fellow at National Chengchi University's Institute of International Relations. "They never really tried to ensure...
...lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and author of a book on Evangelicalism in Northern Ireland. "It certainly doesn't hurt to talk about your faith in public in Northern Ireland politics, and no one has done that more than Iris Robinson. But Evangelical voters expect a certain moral standard, and this [affair] could prove to be a real fly in the ointment." (See pictures of new hope for Belfast...