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conversion is hitting us. How do we survive?"
• For small-theater owners, the problem is the sudden switch from 35 mm film, an industry standard since about 1910, to digital -- a format that's cheaper for both studios and distributors, and doesn't scratch as traditional film will. The switch means theater owners must buy new projection equipment, computers and a sound system.
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• CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A stirring speech by former President Bill Clinton and a surprise appearance by President Barack Obama seemed -- for a moment at least -- to take the sting out of back-to-back glitches that upset Obama's carefully scripted convention.
• In a matter of hours, Obama's team dealt with a potentially severe weather forecast by moving his Thursday nomination speech to a smaller, inside venue. Under criticism from Republicans, Democrats hurriedly added references to God and Jerusalem to the party platform.
• The goal when both unexpected issues arose was to move quickly to minimize risk, lest the president look disorganized and uncertain just a day before he takes the stage to make his case for a second term.
• Top Democrats hoped the sight of Clinton and Obama embracing Wednesday night would alleviate any disappointment Democratic loyalists felt about Obama

scrapping plans to speak in a 74,000-seat football stadium, choosing a much smaller basketball arena instead. They also were banking on the spectacle of two former presidents drowning out the other spectacle of Democrats scrambling to change the party platform at the last minute.
• The severe weather forecast and the platform tussle clearly threw Obama's campaign for a loop.
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• PHOENIX (AP) -- More than two years after it was signed into law, the most contentious part of Arizona's landmark immigration legislation is expected to finally go into effect following a federal court ruling issue late Wednesday.

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