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...timing for Cruise couldn't be better. Minority Report is a smart move for him at this point in his career--an edgy, mind-bending piece of film noir in the vein of Memento and The Matrix. Cruise's audience is vast, but like him, it's getting older. It's the Matrix generation that he needs to capture if he is to remain top gun at the box office. Driving toward Hollywood, he shrugs off a question about his aging demographic. "I'm getting older," he says. "But a story is a story, and a character's a character...
...SPLA, from Sudan's Christian and animist south, wants the country to become a secular state, an idea the government, dominated by the Muslim north, rejects. The SPLA refused to rule out building an independent state, while the government was set on preserving Sudan's unity. The discovery of vast oil reserves along the front line between SPLA and government troops has made Sudan more unstable. The government talked about sharing the oil revenues with all of Sudan; but the rebels suspect that in practice it would not. AFGHANISTAN A Cabinet for Kabul Hamid Karzai was formally sworn...
...Death penalty proponents needn't worry just yet: while Thursday's decision has staggering ramifications for a select number of death penalty cases in the 20 states that still allow executions of mentally retarded prisoners, it does not affect the vast majority of prisoners waiting to be executed...
Bush's 24-page reform plan aims to "enhance operational efficiencies" and encourage "better asset utilization." To win support for his plan, Bush has to convince Congress that the bureaucracy we have now is part of the problem--while allaying fears that the vast new one he's proposing won't make things even worse...
Harvard was the preseason favorite to win the Ivy title not just because it returned the vast majority of its scoring talent from last year’s second-place team, but also because of the sense of desperation from its seniors. The Crimson lived up to expectations, winning the league title by a school record-breaking margin in the standings, outdistancing nearest competitors Cornell and Penn by five games with a 13-1 league record...