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These movies open Friday unless noted. The Hitcher Sean Bean, Sophia Bush and Kyle Davis star in this remake of the 1986 horror film about a young man who makes the mistake of picking up a murderous hitchhiker while driving through the desert....more...Spare Times (New York Times)
AROUND TOWN....more... In Search of Home (Los Angeles Weekly)
On a Palos Verdes street drenched in the beige of suburban luxury, past the orange Mini Cooper parked in one of the red-brick motor courts and around a stand of moist ferns, a carpet inscribed with a Koranic passage hangs protectively over a doorway....more... Dave Barry?s Year in Review (The Pueblo Chieftain)
It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor. Decades from now, our grandchildren will come to us and say, ??Tell us, Grandpa or Grandma as the case may be, what it was like to be alive in the year that Angelina Jolie, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Britney Spears and Katie ......more... Dave Barry's 2006 in review (Dallas Morning News)
It was a momentous year, a year of events that will echo in the annals of history the way a dropped plate of calamari echoes in an Italian restaurant with a tile floor....more... In Japan, new nationalism takes hold (Muzi)
On a pleasant November morning, some 300 Japanese executives paid $150 each to hear a lanky math professor named Masahiko Fujiwara give a secular sermon on restoring Japan's greatness. Mr. Fujiwara spoke quietly, without notes, for 80 minutes....more... In Japan, new nationalism takes hold (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
On a pleasant November morning, some 300 Japanese executives paid $150 each to hear a lanky math professor named Masahiko Fujiwara give a secular sermon on restoring Japan's greatness....more... Balances of power (Al-Ahram Weekly)
As 2006 comes to an end, Egypt's eastern and north-eastern borders, qualified by Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit as "historically" a permanent source of concern, pose accentuated security challenges. Threats are cropping up from Iran to Lebanon and beyond to the east....more... In Japan, new nationalism takes hold (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! Canada News)
The country's post-World War II pacificism is being challenged by a more assertive, patriotic attitude....more... |