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This fall a lot of Winslet, 31, is on show in a lot of places. Having weathered--that is, not been blamed for--All the King's Men, and done a serious turn with Little Children, Todd Field's tale of suburban suffocation, she's dipping her foot into her first big commercial movie since Titanic, Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday. Winslet plays Iris, a retiring English wallflower who swaps houses for Christmas with Cameron Diaz's overachieving Hollywood type. This is the first film in which Winslet has ever played who she actually is, a modern young British...
...mile--and 92% of families wind up with their first or second choice. Even if some don't get what they ask for, race is never the sole factor in how assignments are made. "We look at choices first, we look at siblings, we look at capacity," says Pat Todd, the district's student-assignment director. "Race is way down the list...
American troops in Iraq have become masters of improvisation, like bolting jury-rigged armor to humvees to shield themselves from sniper fire and shrapnel. Lately, an even more novel item has joined their battle kits. Stratford, N.J., mom Marcelle Shriver recently got a call from her son Todd requesting ... Silly String. Marines working with his unit in Iraq had shown the Army combat engineer how it can be used to detect trip wires. Before searching buildings, for example, personnel spray doorways from at least 10 ft. away with streams of foam--and see if they're snagged by barely visible...
...across the political spectrum are finding common ground on economic issues, including CEO pay and the minimum wage - populist messages that had been muffled among Democrats during the economic boom times of the Clinton Administration. "They resonated this time a lot louder than they have in a long time," Todd said...
...course none of this means that the country has moved to the left politically. "Sure, Yarmuth won by running as a liberal in a non-liberal district," said Todd. "But the race wasn't about him. The mistake Democrats could make is to see winning liberal candidates like him as proof that a much more liberal agenda is more palatable to the public...