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...last year, Slumdog was suddenly without a U.S. distributor, and producer Christian Colson was told the film would be shelved. The parent company could have just sat on it--as Colson explains the industry logic, "It's better to let a film die than to have someone else turn it into a big hit"--but Warner Bros. "did the right thing" and let Colson show it to other indies. "Fortunately and extraordinarily," says Boyle, "and like almost everything else that's happened in this film, some mysterious stars and constellations aligned, and Fox Searchlight picked...
...action. Lerner and Keltner showed the corrosive effects of fear in a 2001 paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Those who scored high on measures of fear, they found, were consistently less willing to take risks during games and more likely to predict their lives would turn out badly. The fearful are far more pessimistic, and it's a short journey from pessimism to withdrawal...
...were an adult woman, is both an icon and a kitsch object that has provoked feminist ire. In recent years, Barbie's sales have vacillated because of competing dolls and other childhood diversions like video games. (The maker of a popular rival, the Bratz doll, was just ordered to turn over its franchise to Mattel for infringing Barbie's copyright. Bad girl...
...heels,” Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. On Friday night, history favors the Crimson—Harvard has won the last nine meetings between the two teams and the last seven in Philadelphia. 2009 wouldn’t seem to be the year that the tides turn for Penn, which lost its first six games of the season and has lost its last five. Still, the Crimson knows better than to take the three-win Quakers lightly. Last season, it took an Emily Tay jumper with 14 seconds remaining to steal a one-point win over Penn...
...fund the abortion industry" and pass out contraceptives. The Republicans were caught off guard when Obama called their bluff and asked congressional Democrats to remove the provision - and fell back to complaining about the bill's cost and the insufficient size of tax cuts. But then it was liberals' turn to be up in arms over Obama's "betrayal," with some bloggers and pundits accusing the President of "throwing low-income women under the bus" in a pointless effort to woo Republicans who ultimately weren't going to vote for the package anyway. (See pictures of Obama's Inauguration...