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...Ponyo nicely portrays the agitation of a wife raising two kids (one of them part-piscine) while her husband's away; but for long stretches, when Koichi's life is imperiled by the storm, the movie forgets about him - perhaps because he's doing a bit of illegal whaling. Fujimoto's wife, Gran Mamare, is a magnificent sea goddess, with the perfect posture and forehead jewel of a Bollywood queen, but she doesn't show up till late in the film. Miyazaki also creates a tsunami that, however fantastical and benign he portrays it, can't help recall the fatal...
...some ways, the storm could not come at a worse time for McCain. It interrupts a wave of mostly positive press coverage, and reignited Republican enthusiasm, after his announcement Friday that he had selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Other messages that the campaign aimed to promote in the days leading up to the convention have also also been disrupted. For instance, McCain spoke Sunday at a rally in Missouri that brought together two of his formal rivals for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, who have had tense relations since...
...McCain campaign is waiting to see the impact of the storm before planning out the rest of the week. But even if the storm damage is bad, it will not be such an easy decision for the Arizona Senator. The media is already asking questions about how much good it does to have a politician with a big security entourage and no actual connection to the afflicted region staying put there...
...news! The weather was terrible at the other end of the Mississippi River, as Hurricane Gustav swept over poor, storm-battered New Orleans, threatening thousands of Gulf Coast residents still dazed by the aftermath of Katrina...
...Good news! First Lady Laura Bush and McCain's wife Cindy closed the truncated program with an appeal for donations to aid storm victims on the Gulf Coast. "This is a time when we take off our Republican hats and put on our American hats," Cindy McCain said to a burst of applause...