David Denby writes about the latest movies in his role as film critic for The New Yorker. He also looks at the much bigger picture in his latest book, "Do the Movies Have a Future?"
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This week, the annual Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, representatives seek to deny visa for Indian politician, Senate approves trade with Russia, Mitch McConnell filibusters his own proposal, and a treaty to protect rights of disabled people fails in Senate.
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LUNCH IN THE LAB | Dec. 7
Today, Lunch in the Lab mourns the loss of Nefertiti, the courageous space spider who soared into low-Earth orbit on a Japanese HTV spacecraft and spent three months hunting fruit flies aboard the International Space Station. She lived the fullest life a spider can live.
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News broke that Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine were expecting their first child when the duchess was admitted to the hospital for acute morning sickness, a condition that affects 60,000 women every year.
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A look at today's unemployment data, and our own U-7 statistic, provide a less rosy picture than you may be seeing elsewhere.
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Nafal is determined to do something his father did not -- graduate from high school -- and that's why he takes his dad's advice to heart: "Stick in school and do your best." City Year helps make this happen at a school that once had a 50 percent suspension rate.
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President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to negotiate one-on-one in an effort to broker a deal to prevent the country from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at year's end.
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GWEN'S TAKE | Dec. 6
Hindsight is a form of grace in the political world. At a recent event at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, campaign operatives and reporters got a chance to rehash the 2012 election season. In a day and a half of sessions, the pros were at turns rueful, curious, baffled and only a little boastful about their successes.
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