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There comes a moment in almost every movie romance when words no longer suffice and the music must rise to the occasion. From the initial meet-cutes to the heated arguments and all those third-act sprints to win back the girl, a movie's sound track often does the heavy lifting, providing all the needed passion, heartache and poetry. The romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer, with a sound track ranging from Wolfmother to Carla Bruni, hits all the right notes, with a few surprising ones thrown in. (Hall & Oates?) TIME talked to (500) Days music supervisor Andrea...
...What are the hallmarks of the ideal romantic sound track? (Listen to TIME's sound track above.) You always have to start with the joy. I think in anything, it's the same pattern, whether you're old or young - there's a honeymoon period where everything's amazing and you can't wait to see that person and everything is very urgent and joyous and amazing. But then things start to get complicated and painful. In (500) Days, Tom, the main character, goes through the full cycle - and this is a very realistic love story, in that everything doesn...
...mounted on a patrol car and use character-recognition software to read numbers and run them through databases. The LAPD has 26 scanners all over the city searching for stolen autos, cars associated with crimes and Amber Alert vehicles. In New Haven, Conn., police are using the scanners to track parking scofflaws, while Palm Beach County, Fla., uses the technology to follow gang members...
Beverages at private events are a little harder to track. "They don't usually publicize what anybody drinks because then companies can use it for advertising purposes," explains Scheib. Maybe that's why the White House kept mum on Obama's beer selection until the day before the meeting, when he selected Bud Light. (See pictures of Denver, Beer Country...
...There have been times when Obama has intervened behind the scenes to keep lawmakers from going off track. The President was alarmed, for instance, when Douglas Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), declared on July 16 that the measures thus far produced in the House and Senate failed to bring the "fundamental change" needed to bring down health costs in the long run. So the following Monday, he summoned Elmendorf, former CBO director Alice Rivlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Jonathan Gruber and Harvard University's David Cutler to the Oval Office to go over the bills...