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...kind of wander through life unaware. He puts me very much at ease. He's very laid back about the whole thing. It's kind of just like hanging out onstage with your buddy." - On working with Letterman (Fort Worth Star Telegram, March...
...also directors - Ricky Gervais, Michael Moore and Drew Barrymore - the humans never stood a chance. The horror-comedy Zombieland won the weekend in North American theaters by scaring up $25 million, according to early studio estimates, which is more than the $23.6 million it cost to shoot the thing. This spawn of Shaun of the Dead helped Hollywood rebound from a lethargic frame a week ago; the industry's total take was nearly as burly as the same weekend last year, when the multiplex was ruled by Beverly Hills Chihuahua, another comedy about the invasion of Los Angeles...
...being laid off," says O'Meara. He suggests that owners assuage those concerns by adapting flexible policies, such as letting staffers who have used up all their paid days off borrow from next year's allotment, telecommute or make up the lost time in other ways. The important thing, he says, is to follow government guidelines, send your employee home, and worry later how and if to pay them...
...charged with "inciting subversion of state power." In August I went to Sichuan to testify at his trial. Tan is an editor and environmentalist, not a revolutionary. But like my father, Tan asks the important questions and says what he thinks. Now, as then, that's a dangerous thing in China. If you open your mouth to point out something that is clearly wrong, if you believe in your essential right to speak, then you can be labeled an enemy of the state. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...risk of loving them to death. Anybody who's been in a traffic jam at Yellowstone knows what I'm talking about. But these are good democratic problems to have. The worst thing would be apathy. Then our rapacious nature would come in--and that's the part that looks at a stream and thinks, Dam, looks at a stand of timber and thinks, Board feet. And then we would lose them...