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...Senator McCain's vice-presidential vetting team knew all of these issues beforehand, and they understood that these issues would eventually come out," he said. "What matters to Americans is how Governor Palin will deal with this, and I think they will be proud of the decisions that Governor Palin and her family have taken so far to address the situation...
...Quietly, I waited for the alienating shocks of another culture’s customs pushing against my own. They never came, and not because I had prepared myself beforehand. I hadn’t. I wanted the experience of being in London to wash over me with all its natural undulations, like the push and pull of a gentle tide. Unlike visiting, living somewhere demands a distinct kind of acculturation. It is an open-minded kind of tourism, an accepting stance toward unfamiliar expressions and the way people interact in the street, an openness to new subway maps...
...While red-eye screenings, especially midnight showings, have been on the rise since the release of the first Star Wars prequel in 1999, lines around the block for hours beforehand - the tradition that gave birth to the idea of "blockbuster" films - have become something of an anachronism. What was a necessity in the days before you could buy tickets on the Web has now become a matter of choice: lightsaber-wielding guys and Harry Potter-bespectacled kids happily line up to commune before a film. "In the '80s, if you wanted to go see a movie on a Friday night...
...Perhaps even more significant than analyzing bills after the fact is being able to influence debates beforehand. "The holy grail of this new movement is to develop the technology for collaborative analysis of bills online," says Rafael DeGennaro, a longtime congressional staffer and former president of Taxpayers for Common Sense. An example of the impact of legislative annotation took place as far back as a year ago, when conservative blogger N.Z. Bear posted a PDF version of the 2007 Senate Immigration Bill, helping opponents of the bill rally around particularly controversial details that might otherwise have escaped their attention...
...United broke $200 million at the box office in 2003, hand-drawn heroes swung back into favor. The joke in Hollywood now is that in a risk-averse era, comic-book adaptations have a distinct advantage: the drawings mean studio execs can see beforehand what the movie will look like...