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...earn $14,075,000, a 25% increase over yesterday, while the mentalists over at DreamWorks/Paramount said the Transformers 2 take would rise nearly 30%, to $13,872,000. That oddly precise number guaranteed that both movies would get on the evening news. Skeptics are forgiven for wondering whether the system for determining weekend grosses is numbers-crunching or a numbers racket...
...Democracy activists remain unconvinced. "The regime thumbed its nose at the entire U.N. system," says Debbie Stothard of ALTSEAN, a Southeast Asia-based network of activist groups campaigning for democracy and human rights in Burma. "It's time for the international community and the U.N. to take off the kid gloves. It's time the international community stopped regarding crimes against humanity, repression and human-rights violations as normal for Burma. The regime didn't fail to take this opportunity, it refused...
...Down through the organization, he's made it much easier for people in departments and centers to make decisions based on real information about what's happening in the system," Smith said on Thursday. "He has done a terrific job coming in and strengthening our organization...
...trying to negotiate the cheapest itineraries, I came away with three tickets for journeys that take on average 10 hours each, and I still have to book one in Spain because apparently I couldn’t reserve that particular route in France. Europe’s comprehensive rail system is still a great achievement, but navigating the thing is definitely no simple task...
...Samuel "Joe the Plumber" • curiosity of about why Sen. Chris Dodd hasn't yet "been strung up" • proud and profound ignorance of, in this case a bold declaration that the Founding Fathers "knew socialism doesn't work. They knew communism doesn't work," though in fact neither system had yet been invented when the Founding Fathers were alive and knowing things • public office will not be run for by, at least not now, because, "You know, I talked to God about that and He was like...