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...other item: Avatar demonstrated that 3-D could bring studios gigantic bundles of cash. For ages, the rule of movie exhibition has been that customers pay the same price for a movie that cost $250 million to make (say, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) as for one that cost $15,000 (Paranormal Activity). But 3-D changes all that. You can charge audiences the moon to see a 3-D movie, and if you show it, they will come. The extra cost of making a movie in the format, or of jerry-building 3-D effects...
After a month-long preseason slate that saw the Harvard softball team endure long plane flights, controversy over a newly-enforced pitching rule, and a 10-game losing streak, it’s finally time to really play ball...
...result, Chinese economic clout now outweighs its diplomatic leverage and soft power. "China has been reluctant to be put in the traditional order," says Xingdong Chen, the chief China economist for BNP Paribas Securities. "Now they are building a new order, and China needs to take part in the rule building. If China stays away, it won't be part of the international community...
...states already get plenty of funds from the European kitty as steady entitlements. And solidarity, a favorite shibboleth of all good Europeans, goes both ways. Europe should spread the wealth, but help works best when the profligate show remorse for their sins. This is why Merkel's no-bailout rule could have an entirely salutary effect, by imposing fiscal rectitude on the wayward...
Worse, many believe the policies have helped stoke the Taliban's war against the coalition by uniting residents against the Afghan soldiers who destroyed their opium crops. "Eradicating marijuana and opium fields can breed resentment by people and be destabilizing," says John Dempsey, a rule-of-law adviser to U.S. and Afghan officials for the U.S. Institute of Peace. He cites the town of Marjah, in Helmand province, where U.S. forces rolled tanks over poppy fields in a major offensive in February, two years after Afghan forces destroyed the local farmers' opium crops. After those antidrug offensives, Dempsey says, "local...