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Standing in front of an international audience clutching her Best Actress Oscar, Sandra Bullock was perhaps the only person at the Kodak Theatre willing to admit some level of surprise about her giddy ascension to the ranks of Meryl Streep and Dame Helen Mirren - two of the acting titans she sweetly steamrolled over for the acting honor...
...Actually, many people saw this as a sure-thing vote. At some point it simply became her time. Bullock had been the favorite for various Best Actress awards in the weeks - even months - leading up to the Oscars, and it's almost hard to remember a time when it was unthinkable to see the 45-year-old actress at a podium...
...Before 2009, that would have been pretty easy. Though Bullock was part of the ensemble cast of Crash, which won a Best Picture Oscar in 2006, even she seemed content to have a career marked as a box-office champion, screen comedienne and shrewd producer of such hits as Miss Congeniality and Two Weeks Notice. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...Charging five current or former police officers for the murder of the Saudi businessman who disappeared in 1990 - along with the subsequent trial, slated for the end of March - represents the best chance in years to put an end to the long-standing row. All five officers, however, deny the charges and have vowed to fight them in court. The highest ranking of the bunch, Somkid Boonthanom, has blamed politics for the arrest, telling Bangkok's the Nation that he witnessed "outside factors intimidating and pressuring" the prosecutors...
...recent demonstrations topple the government, Novodvorskaya says, most likely the communists or some other authoritarian force will seize power. Such parties are best placed, she says, to promise handouts and paternalism, the things people want at a time of financial crisis. "We've played that bloody game with the Bolsheviks before, and the motives behind these protests are again material. These people don't want to hear about free-market capitalism and European integration. These are foreign notions here, and they will support anyone still capable of throwing them a bone. Don't be confused. The government still has bones...