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Certainly a lot of “blockbusters” and “long-awaited films” are making it to the screen this year (perhaps more than usual). But does the world really need a mega-budget screen version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which means more dopey Christian allegory than The Lord of the Rings already provided? And Hollywood apparently missed the joke of Team America: World Police’s hilarious spoof of the Broadway musical Rent (“Everyone has AIDS! My father…AIDS! My sister?...
...many Hong Kong people for making a success of his life. As a veteran civil servant, Tsang knows how Hong Kong works. And as a lifelong administrator, his instinct is to be conservative?a quality Beijing appreciates. "He's someone who is able to carry on business as usual, ensure economic growth and political stability, and who doesn't create controversy," says City University's Cheung...
Although the doubles teams were a bit different from usual, they played with the usual intensity...
...Ogunwole (22-5)—who reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA tournament as a freshman last year—life was harder than usual. After dropping a 4-3 decision in double-overtime to No. 3 Tanner Garret, he lost a taxing match to the Big Red’s No. 5 Tyler Shovlin in the first consolation bout, injuring himself in the process...
...children walking barefoot with water jugs, wood for fuel, and other bundles. The midmorning temperature is sweltering. In this subsistence maize-growing region of a poor, landlocked country in southern Africa, families cling to life on an unforgiving terrain. This year has been a lot more difficult than usual because the rains have failed. The crops are withering in the fields that we pass...