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President Barack Obama appeared Saturday to be leaning toward appointing a third Republican to his Cabinet, a move that would place the fiscally conservative Sen. Judd Gregg at the head of the Commerce Department even though a liberal Democrat was initially tapped for the post.
Gov. Steve Beshear called up his entire Army National Guard on Saturday, tripling his troops with his state still reeling from a deadly ice storm that knocked out power from the Midwest to the East Coast.
Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation’s stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals.
I think it’s entirely possible that our expectations may have risen just a tad, which is why a lot of us are disappointed when the ads we’ve seen during the Super Bowl aren’t totally mindblowing. Let’s be honest with ourselves, at the end of the day, they’re still commercials, right? ...
Why wait until Sunday to catch Sobe’s new Lizard Lake commercial in 3D? Well, I guess if you’ve got the HD TV all ready to go, you might consider waiting to see how that third dimension comes through on the big screen but if you’re an impatient person or you ...
Film Reviews: The plot sounds like something out of a Harold Robbins novel, but Mahmut Fazil Coskun carefully eliminates any hint of melodrama with the spare, measured, observational visuals of his debut, “Wrong Rosary.”
Film Reviews: More interesting for its intentions than for what it actually achieves, Tsui Hark’s romantic comedy “All About Women” scores high on energy but low on real laffs.
Film Reviews: A moody London-set thriller in which the thrills are more about bedrooms than bullets, Gallic-helmed “Spy(ies)” dips its USB key into the romantic side effects of international espionage, to partially satisfying effect.
Film Reviews: Wry, sympathetic visuals and an infectious warmth mark Takatsugu Naito’s enjoyable scholarship feature, “The Dark Harbor.”
Film Reviews: Using many of the same Swedish west coast locations and collaborators as executive producer Jesper Ganslandt’s 2006 “Falkenburg Farewell,” the intermittently mesmerizing, low-budget experimental mood-piece “Burrowing,” from feature debutants Henrik Hellstrom and Fredrik Wenzel, takes inspiration from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, emphasizing the importance of self-reliance, ...