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...apprentice. (He also borrows a Hitchcock trick, from Stage Fright, of showing a misleading scene from the killer's demented point of view.) The movie is nothing above the ordinary, but that doesn't matter to the horror fanboys, who go to these movies the way their dads visit Ace Hardware. Different tools, familiar vibe...
...couple of quiet salutes to an important constituency. On Sunday morning, he and Vice President-elect Joe Biden placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. On Monday morning, the President-elect slipped over to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for an unannounced visit with troops wounded in Afghanistan and Iraq. Much of the country may have missed those brief visits, but the men and women of the U.S. military didn...
...occasions themselves were muted. Obama said nothing publicly at Arlington, and cameras were barred during his Walter Reed visit. But the symbolism is more important than anything Obama could have said. He's gone out of his way to win the hearts and minds - if not the votes - of those wearing the uniforms of the nation's armed services. (See pictures of Obama taken or illustrated by everyday Americans...
...President-elect Obama heard from Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Senator Lindsey Graham last week, when the two returned from a fact-finding visit to Afghanistan, "things are going to get tougher" here...
...good news for Obama, whose first regional summit, fittingly, will be the Summit of the Americas, to be held in Trinidad in April. (Obama already met with Mexican President Felipe Calderón earlier this week and has said he will make Canada the destination of his first foreign visit as President.) Improving relations with the western hemisphere - as an early item on his diplomatic agenda and not as an afterthought, as most U.S. Presidents approach it - could turn out to be a relatively easy way to prime the pump for better relations with the rest of the world. "Compared...