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...acting prizes went to foreigners. For England's Kate Winslet, her sixth Oscar nomination was the charm after being named Best Actress for her role as a concentration camp guard in The Reader. Spanish enchantress Penélope Cruz won Best Supporting Actress for her fiery painter in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, making her the first Spanish actress to win an acting Oscar. And in the ceremony's most emotionally honest moment, the mother, father and sister of the late Australian star Heath Ledger accepted his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Dark Knight. "We have been...
...Kate Allen, Amnesty's U.K. director, believes both the U.S. and British governments would benefit from such a process. President Obama has "made a tremendous start" by announcing the closure of Guantánamo, she says, but "his tendency will be to look forward. He actually needs to look back to what happened before he took office. Whatever the ins and outs of the case, the British government looks like it's covering...
...Comedy duos had been a staple of vaudeville (Buck and Bubbles, Gallagher and Shean, Burns and Allen) and movies; in 1942, theater exhibitors voted Bud Abbott and Lou Costello the No. 1 "star" in Hollywood. What Lewis saw in Martin, when they first teamed up in 1946, was something unique: a sexpot straight man, a perfect complement to Jer's goony girly-boy. Dean was Lewis's public enabler; by acting as the imperturbable wall against which the kid's maniacal energy kept bouncing, he translated Jer to the mainstream audience...
...Houston The Next Madoff? The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged billionaire R. Allen Stanford--head of the Antigua-based Stanford International Bank--with orchestrating an alleged $8 billion investment fraud, fabricating data and luring investors with dubiously high returns. Two other bank executives have also been accused of wrongdoing...
...board at 17:28 in the first on a slow-motion 2-on-1 breakaway. After taking a pass from Courtney Sheary, Wildcat Shannon Sisk sped up the left side of the ice. Though Crimson senior Nora Sluzas got between the two UNH skaters, Sisk found a charging Julie Allen, who powered the puck past Harvard junior goaltender Christina Kessler. Three minutes into the second period, another odd-man rush led to another UNH goal. In the midst of a sloppy Harvard power play, Wildcat junior Kelly Paton intercepted the puck in the neutral zone and broke...