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...Searchlight executives say they are happy with the film's performance, pointing out that its weekend take of $2.2 million was the highest for any Fox film released in India, and the third highest for any U.S. release ever in that country - behind Spider-Man 3 and Casino Royale. The Indian critics, too, have been enthusiastic. "Hats, caps and wigs off," wrote Khaled Mohammad in the Hindustan Times on Sunday, calling it a "masterwork of technical bravura, adorned with inspired ensemble performances and directed with astonishing empathy." Added critic Rajeev Masand, "It's a great, fun film with...
...MAN ON CAMPUS
...began to work his father's fields alongside a young girl named Nelly. He soon found himself filed with passion for what he would later call "man's first great pleasure in life," and wrote one of his earliest poems about the girl. As Burns grew, so did his success with women. Male friends became his unwilling wingmen and complained that Burns would leave them at a tavern if a feminine opportunity presented itself. Over the course of his life, the poet would father fourteen children by six different mothers (only one of whom he married...
...hard to raise a family on a poet's salary, of course, so Burns took a job as a tax inspector while still writing - and farming - on the side. He switched from poems to songs, and produced a number of tunes still famous today: "A Man's a Man for A' That," "A Red, Red Rose," and of course the New Year's Eve jingle about old acquaintances. Unfortunately, Burns had a weak heart, and strenuous requirements of a farmer's life took their toll. He died in 1796 - on the very day that his wife gave birth...
...that we use these tunnels to only bring in weapons. We're bringing in the ordinary stuff that keeps Gaza alive. If the Israelis opened the border crossings, we wouldn't have to be doing this," says Mohammed, a gap-toothed man in his 40s whose cap is emblazoned with a Koranic verse that he hopes will protect him from being buried alive when the Israeli fighter-bombers reappear in the skies over Gaza...