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...gnarly little art-house entries. They know that more people watch the Oscars in years when truly popular movies are among the finalists. The biggest ratings in the past 15 years have been when Titanic and LOTR: The Return of the King swept to victory. Ratings were up a bit this year; but if two big audience favorites, Slumdog and The Dark Knight, had gone head to head, the numbers might have been astronomical. This decision is all about ratings. (Watch an interview with Slumdog composer A.R. Rahman...
Much of the answer, they found out, depends on the beholder's sex. The men in the study were less likely than women to click off photos of unattractive babies - viewing them for the full four seconds - but clicked quite a bit to hold on to the images of the pretty ones. Their reactions were the same whether they had children of their own or not. Women, conversely, left the keyboard alone when they were looking at pretty babies but hurried away from the less attractive ones - with the results again not seeming to be influenced by whether...
...Those records, in both men's cases tarnished during the 1998 riots and the breakaway of East Timor the following year, is enough to convince some voters that SBY remains the best man for the job. "SBY may be a bit dull and is not about fiery rhetoric, but at least he has stood behind his principles," says Hidayat Jati, an executive in the media industry. "Even his in-law [former central banker Aulia Pohan] has been put in jail for corruption. People like seeing that the élite are no longer above...
...written had he grown up next door to the Cleavers") and judicious use of examples from American history. With a law professor in the White House, Pierce's thesis and gleeful bashing of the previous Administration ("we have lived through an unprecedented decade of richly empowered hooey") seem a bit dated. But his high-octane ranting and sophisticated prose (he is a contributing writer for Esquire) may well appeal to the already converted...
...Army's newly launched unit of camoufleurs. Now that troops had to avoid bombs dropped from the sky, mines underfoot and bullets from pretty much everywhere else, the gloriously regal (not to mention flamboyant) garb worn in an earlier era of warfare began to seem a bit outdated, if not downright dangerous...