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Avatar also held well, finishing third despite losing 104 screens from last week. The James Cameron eco-epic dropped only 32%, and some time this week will cross the $700 million North American mark, fully $100 million over the previous all-time domestic champ, Cameron's Titanic. Its worldwide gross has passed $2.4 billion, nearly $600 million more than Titanic, and looks to keep going until some undetermined date when everyone on the planet will have seen it. (See the top 10 movie performances...
...front of a sell-out crowd of 2,195 that featured numerous members of the national media as well as over a dozen NBA scouts, both teams put on a show, but in the end, Cornell’s headliners generated most of the highlights...
...ElBaradei runs, this may be the first election in which the opposition groups can present a viable alternative candidate. ElBaradei has broad appeal as a well-established and respected public figure whose career flourished far from the bounds of corrupt regime politics. "We are not just liberal people coming here," said Baha' Ahmed, a pharmacist standing in the crowd with his elderly mother. "People from all over are coming. Not only liberals, but people from all over Egypt, as ElBaradei is very independent politically...
...more gates and less speed, Miller once again made good on his unmatched versatility. He notched his second medal of the Games, and gave notice that the foul-mouthed, night-clubbing iconoclast I had profiled on the cover of TIME four years ago had given way to someone more, well, let's not say mature, since we are talking about an incredibly free spirit, but a guy who came to ski rather than take on the world. "For me the legacy is the way you perform; the performance for me was impressive. I was nervous and fired up and excited...
...Austrian team, which came into the games as a heavy medal favorite. To the stunned amazement of the many Austrian fans roving around Whistler, the performance has been something of a national nightmare in the sport the Austrians have dominated. The Yanks, on the other hand, have always done well in Canada. Gold and bronze medalist Lindsey Vonn practically owns Lake Louise, a stop on the women's tour. Throw in Julia Mancuso's two silvers and the U.S. alpine team has now won seven medals at the Vancouver games, its highest total ever. Whistler isn't exactly home cooking...