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...good news for Apatow and his long-ago roomie Adam Sandler is that their film topped the weekend box office at domestic theaters. The bad news ... Where to begin? Funny People cadged the lowest take for any No. 1 film this year. Not just in the prime-time summer months - we're talking January too. It was also Sandler's poorest opener in five years, since Spanglish. And it earned a B-, or barely passing, from the Cinemascore poll of people who'd seen the movie. That's not so funny. (Read TIME's Funny People review...
...indie action, the rom-com (500) Days of Summer picked up $2.8 million and, at 266 venues, had the weekend's highest per-screen average among the top 60 releases, for a cume of $6,821,000. The bomb-squad thriller The Hurt Locker was right behind, with a five-week total of $6,757,000. The weekend's most highly acclaimed newbies - the save-the-dolphins doc The Cove and the South Korean vampire-priest horror movie Thirst - opened well, with about $55,000 each at four theaters...
...that later rationalized new methodologies in pedagogy, prioritizing the creativity of the American student over his or her ability to perform under pressure. With the theory of “multiple intelligences” firmly in place, parents willingly took to shuttling kids off to soccer games, painting lessons, summer camps, and dance recitals. In high school and college, these interests turned into extracurriculars, which de-emphasized textbook learning but worked to contribute to the student’s growth as an individual. It is perhaps a luxury of America’s economic position that parents can afford...
...think tank is the school of hard knocks. But we’re lucky to spend our summer in a staring contest with Google. At least I think...
...attacks were not wholly unexpected. ETA often steps up its campaign of violence during the summer months, and in recent weeks Spain's Interior Ministry had heightened security at a number of sensitive targets across the country. It wasn't enough - the Burgos bomb was attached to a van parked outside a civil-guard barracks; the Majorca one was tied beneath a civil-guard car. (See pictures of terrorism...