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...Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter series, to be sure, but mainly the animated features from Pixar, Dreamworks and Aardman. These films did more than teach life lessons about the value of friendship, loyalty and initiative; they gave priceless instruction in what movies can be, and how to watch them. Seeing Finding Nemo, Kung Fu Panda and Chicken Run - not to mention this year's Up, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Coraline and The Princess and the Frog - should create in kids the demand that any movie aimed at them must be at least within shouting distance of those masterpieces...
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That has made the always busy street even busier than ever. Scores of young men, private guards and domestic servants, sit on large white flowerpots, keeping watch on the immediate vicinity. Expensive cars, including new SUVs and luxury sedans, deliver well-heeled visitors by the minute. They are quickly ushered through huge, black gates into a sprawling estate of two large white single-story buildings. Mutallab, who is in his 70s, has not been short of sympathizers and well-wishers since the news broke...
...British government placed Abdulmutallab on its watch list in May after he cited a nonexistent school in his application for a student visa. "If you are on our watch list, then you do not come into this country," Alan Johnson, Britain's Home Secretary, told the BBC on Monday, Dec. 28. (See the Detroit terrorism suspect's Nigeria connections...
...appeared to be growing more radical. (Mutallab regularly travels to the U.S. for health checkups.) But in response to that warning, Washington simply added Abdulmutallab's name to the more than half a million others on the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE) roster, the least rigorous of its four watch lists. It basically serves as a repository of suspicious characters; the placement of him on that list required no further action unless additional information linking Abdulmutallab to terrorism surfaced. (See how the incident on Flight 253 fits al-Qaeda's pattern...