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...less - unheard of when the average studio project costs three times that - and Juno had a ludicrously low budget of $2.5 million. Yet that endearing/annoying (take your pick) comedy about a pregnant teenager is the one solid hit among the Big Five. The movie, which has been in wide release only since Christmas day, has already earned $87 million. None of the others has yet topped $50 million at the domestic wickets (though the Brit Atonement is in Juno's league if you count the international gross...
...edge of a dirt crater 40 feet wide and 20 feet deep, Lieutenant Shawn Spainhour and Sheikh Dawood Rashid al-Shuhaib stare down in silence at the wreckage. In August 2007, the U.S. military bombed the sheikh's house, obliterating it with a 500-lb. JDAM "bunker buster." The rest of the village was flattened by artillery. Spainhour, in full battle gear - flak jacket, helmet, knife, guns, boots, camouflage and radio - turns to the grief-stricken, 60-year-old sheikh, who is wearing resplendent traditional Arab dress, and asks his translator to tell him that "I sincerely apologize for everything...
With apologies to Al Gore, the end of the world is hot. What's behind our appetite for the apocalypse? Is it a way of confronting deep-seated, species-wide fear? Or is it something more?might there be something about the end of the world that we just can't wait...
...class. Take that, John Edwards.After Harvard’s headlines were sidelined by presidential primaries during the holidays, the University’s new academic calendar, announced with great fanfare last June, was re-announced with great fanfare this week. Now, at long last, we know when the University-wide semesters and holidays will start and end, through June 2015. Perish uncertainty—freshmen can take advantage of choice airfares and book their flights for spring break, March 12-20, 2011. Had the new schedule been distributed without the fanfare, only those administrators whose planning required exact knowledge...
...some, the idea of Brussels steaming into corporate premises is shocking. But the Commission's competition services have wide powers to raid businesses suspected of organizing cartels or other illegal E.U.-wide activities...