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...leader and an Arab American who some Israelis view as too evenhanded. Winding up his tour to the region this week, Mitchell says he'll be back after the Feb. 10 elections when Israelis choose a new Prime Minister. Most likely, according to polls, it will be the hawkish Benjamin Netanyahu from the Likud Party, and if so, Mitchell's job will immediately get a lot harder. Netanyahu has vowed to "finish the work" in Gaza. By that, he says he intends to crush the Islamic militants of Hamas, even if that means launching an assault similar...
...young did fill two slots, with a brace of movies that should duke it out for Best Picture: the Anglo-Indian Slumdog Millionaire, with 10 nominations, and the all-Hollywood The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, with 13. One film cost $15 million, the other 10 times that. Slumdog is about kids who grow into teenagers amid the civil and class chaos of modern Mumbai; Benjamin Button, about someone (Brad Pitt, no less) who's born an old man and ages backward, reaching adolescence when most people are hitting senility. Both pictures have social agendas, but they are more vigorous...
...might actually prop up the sinking ratings of what was once the highest-rated TV show except for the Super Bowl - it chose the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong films. It's sweet that Angelina Jolie will accompany her beau Brad (Best Actor nominee for Benjamin Button) to the ceremony, but a shame that she was made a Best Actress finalist for her work as the desperate mother in Changeling, a performance so miscalibrated that it yanks the story out of its period whenever she's on screen. (Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, took three nominations...
...Obama Administration must go through a veritable obstacle course of legal and logistical difficulties before it can remove the last detainee and consign the much reviled prison to history. "After the signature, that's when you face the practical difficulties," says Vijay Padmanabhan, a visiting professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and former counsel on detainee issues to the State Department. How long could it take? Experts consulted by TIME say there's a good chance there will still be some detainees at the prison deep into 2009, and possibly into 2010. (See pictures from inside Guant...
...about taking Hollywood's favorite pasttime - congratulating itself - and turning it on its head," says John Wilson, summarizing the mission behind his Golden Raspberry Awards, better known today as the Razzies. "It's our reminder that yes, you made movies like Doubt, Benjamin Button and Slumdog Millionaire, but you also made things like Love Guru and Meet Dave and Indiana Jones 4." (See TIME's top 10 films...