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...while the site remains a fun hobby for its creators, Awful Library Books has struck a nerve with frustrated librarians, particularly those in Michigan, whose economy has been among the hardest hit during the recession. Hibner said she spends a lot of her time helping patrons draft résumés and plan career paths. To offer a book like, say, 1978's Careers in Management for the New Woman as help is useless advice at best and nearly criminal at worst...
...three eggs he finds in an ice cave. They hatch and are revealed to each be a T. rex, whose mother soon finds and retrieves them in a neat mouthful, which includes Sid. The sloth's absence hardly seems like reason to take on the dinosaurs. Their possum friends sum it up nicely with this exchange: "I don't even like Sid." "Who does? He's an idiot." Nonetheless, they all go after...
This movie, though, is more than the sum of the films it echoes, including Allen's own. It's common for reviewers of his recent work to cite an early triumph like Bananas or Annie Hall and find the new ones lacking. Whatever Works is different: it has that young-Woody fizz with a mature comic romanticism; it's been aged in wit. If Allen has a decade or two of films left in him and if he makes a really excellent one years from now, people will say, "It's terrific, but it's no Whatever Works...
...avid outdoorsman. Nobody's ever accused our governor of being conventional"), except then the car of is found parked at the airport because it turns out the location of was actually Argentina, where an e-mail-fueled affair was being sadly broken off by in Buenos Aires, so, to sum up, another week, another would-be 2012 Republican presidential candidacy in self-induced shambles, though of course - OOPS! - Fox News initially put a (D) after the name of • Obama is blamed by Rush Limbaugh for the indiscretions of because ... because ... well, isn't EVERYTHING Obama's fault...
...Rohde story. In May 2007, the freelance Afghan journalist and translator was accused of being a spy, abducted and beheaded by the Taliban in southern Helmand province. The Italian correspondent he was working with, Daniele Mastrogiacomo, was later released in exchange for five militants and an undisclosed sum of cash paid by the Italian government. Another Afghan reporter working in Helmand, Abdul Samad Rohani, was killed last June while investigating a story for the British Broadcasting Corp. on illegal poppy cultivation. The Taliban, usually quick to claim credit even in instances where they may not actually be involved, denied...