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...Yet they are the lifelines for When in Rome, because the supporting cast, including Anjelica Huston as a Guggenheim chief curator and Bobby Moynihan as Nick's very possessive pal, has no characters or amusing lines, no substance or subtext, to work with. Beth's four pursuers are even lamer. Heder and Arnett were splendid as Will Ferrell's skating partner and chief rival in Blades of Glory; to see them here, reduced to floundering, is to witness a small crime against comedy expertise. As sad as this is, it's no shock, since the director, Mark Steven Johnson...
...says Professor Marc Spindelman of Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. "While evidence suggests there were those who thumped for Prop 8 who did so from religious scruples, not everybody who voted for it did." Some voters, he says, simply fear that not enough is known yet about the effect on children who are raised by gay parents, or even how stable or lasting gay marriages may turn out to be. "You can look at this two ways. You can say there is no evidence of harm, or you could say there is not yet affirmative evidence...
...League Baseball, the All-Star Game winner gets home-field advantage for the World Series; offering some kind of reward for the winning conference would help spur actual competition. For now, the Pro Bowl is a game that satisfies neither fans nor players. Expect the ratings to reflect that yet again on Sunday...
...enabled him to cajole dubious colleagues and a skeptical Parliament into reluctantly supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq. An inquiry panel of career diplomats and academics was never likely to dent his composure. ("They're sitting there like chickens," squawked an exasperated audience member during a break from proceedings.) Yet Blair's light grilling still produced a major eye opener: as opponents of the Iraq conflict waited in vain for an apology or some gratifying symptom of inner regret, Blair instead used the platform to argue for opening a new battlefront - against Iran. (See a photo-essay of Saddam Hussein...
...pathological to the specter of a very different regime, one that is widely reviled by a substantial number of the human-rights activists and libertarians who most fiercely decry the Iraq war. And unlike Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Iran does have a nuclear program, although no hard evidence has yet been produced that it is using that program to produce weapons...