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...desperate "Hello" to whatever is left of our world. This is your Box-Office Weekend correspondent, trying to communicate from Sint Maarten/Saint Marten, the half-Dutch, half-French Caribbean island. Coming here to escape the cataclysm foretold in the top new movie, 2012, backfired. The seas did not rise to swallow up the island, but my laptop did go kaput. Will my report get out via fax or iPhone? If you're reading this, the answer is yes. If not, then 2012 may have arrived three years early...
...gonna die. He's done it before. A past master of disaster, the German director devastated the planet in Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow; he wasted New York City in Godzilla and showed us the distant past was no safer in 10,000 B.C. This time Emmerich left billions of humans crushed in the convulsions of the earth and for good measure killed off the (African-American) President of the U.S. and the Pope. Give the people what they want...
...parents always taught me that whatever you’re involved in, you should always leave it better when you leave,” said Zhang, “So whether it’s CSA or Harvard in general, by the time I leave it, I would have left it better than when I came.” Zhang is the vice president of the Chinese Students Association (CSA) and the director of special projects for Veritas Financial Group. In the beginning of this year, Zhang worked with CSA, BSA, and BMF to host “Rush Hour...
...fight has left boxing fans hungry for more - which is good news for the sport's promoters. The trouble, however, is that they have only one Manny Pacquiao to go around. The roster of exciting talent is thin. The two matches before the main event in Vegas had interesting names in them (Julio Cesar Chávez Jr., son of the famous Mexican fighter, was one; Yuri Foreman, a Belarussian-born Israeli boxer now living in Brooklyn, N.Y., was another), but they were anemic - and not just in comparison to the electric battle between Cotto and Pacquiao...
...future," says Hilmarsson. "Design and fashion have now become a high focus, not only within the sector, but also politically." Indeed, in May of this year, the promotion of design both at home and abroad was incorporated into the agenda of Iceland's new Social Democratic Alliance and the Left-Green Movement coalition government. (See women in fashion...