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...plays Barry, a bee who's restless to get out of his home base in New Hive City and see the world. (Like Antz, the first DreamWorks CGI feature, Bee Movie is set in Central Park.) His first outside flight lands him in the home of a friendly florist (voiced by Renée Zellweger) and, in the anything-goes premise, they find they can talk to each other. While Barry's parents fret that she's not right for him ("Is she bee-ish?"), he uncovers a plot to enslave his species and, like a good Jewish bee, acts...
...Which side of that equation will count more over time? "Foreign affairs," Reynie states with a laugh. "The economy may be what the average French person will complain about on any given day, but defending the grandeur of France is always what he will base a President's record on in the long...
...Over the next month, the government tried to make a court case against Padilla. But on June 9, he was abruptly classified as an "enemy combatant" - someone who engaged in battle against the U.S. - and thrown into the brig at a South Carolina naval base. The following day in Moscow, Ashcroft announced Padilla's capture as "a significant step forward in the war on terrorism...
...Kevin Sheekey, the mayor's political adviser, says Bloomberg might run if the two parties put forward nominees that play to their base constituencies but turn off the center of the electorate. "It's not impossible that that window could open and he could run a viable campaign," Sheekey says with careful deliberation. "And if it opens, he should consider...
...candidate after Hamas and Fatah brokered their unity government in Mecca earlier this year. And it came as no surprise when he announced his resignation on Monday, amid a fierce resurgence of fighting between the two camps that has claimed at least eight lives since Sunday. Absent a power base of his own, Kawasmeh's prospects for integrating the fighting forces of the rival factions into the Palestinian Authority's security forces were always slim. But his resignation may nonetheless portend the collapse of the unity government, and the onset of a full-blown Palestinian civil...